Authors:
  • Unlike most wars, which make rotten fiction in themselves - all plot and no characters, or made-up characters - Vietnam seems to be the perfect mix: the characters make the war, and the war unmakes the characters. The gods, fates, furies had a relatively small hand in it. The mess was man-made, a synthetic, by think tank out of briefing session.

    "The Good Word & Other Words" by Wilfrid Sheed, Penguin, (pp. 107-108), 1980.