American Gis Quotes

#1. Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.

Hanoi Hannah

#2. To the Somali, the Amerikaan is weird, to the American GI, the Somali is an ingrate and a skinny.

Nuruddin Farah

#3. American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.

Hanoi Hannah

#4. Sergeant Missouri crouched close to the ground, pulling up his collar against the bitter, gusting winds. Show me, he thought tiredly, I'm from Missouri.

Maureen Daly

#5. At night these people put out food so the ghosts will have something to eat. They put out Vietnamese food for the ghosts of the dead Vietnamese soldiers. But many American GIs died, too, so they put out American food for the ghosts of the dead American soldiers.

Ralph Fletcher

#6. In 1978, 'Time' magazine sent me to do a story about children in Southeast Asia fathered by American GIs. What I saw was very upsetting, but the story they published was whitewashed.

Rick Smolan