Joseph L. Galloway > Quotes

“We were children of the 1950s and John Kennedy's young stalwarts of the early 1960s. He told the world that Americans would "pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship" in the defense of freedom. We were the down payment on that costly contract, but the man who signed it was not there when we fulfilled his promise. John Kennedy waited for us on a hill in Arlington National Cemetery, and in time we came by the thousands to fill those slopes with out white marble markers and to ask on the murmur of the wind if that was truely the future he had envisioned for us.”
― Joseph L. Galloway

“The toughest bullshit to cut through, is one's own.”
― Joseph L. Galloway

“We who have seen war, will never stop seeing it. In the silence of the night, we will always hear the screams. So this is our story, for we were soldiers once, and young”
― Joseph L. Galloway, They Were Soldiers: The Sacrifices and Contributions of Our Vietnam Veterans

“We who have seen war will never stop seeing it.”
― Joseph L. Galloway, They Were Soldiers: The Sacrifices and Contributions of Our Vietnam Veterans