Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Vietnamese celebrity Hanoi Hannah.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Trịnh Thị Ngọ, also known as Thu Hương and Hanoi Hannah, was a Vietnamese radio personality best known for her work during the Vietnam War, when she made English-language broadcasts for North Vietnam directed at United States troops.
American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.
Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.
We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers.
And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.
I had to do something for the country.
I would like to see America some day.
Well, we think the broadcasts did have some effect, because we see the antiwar movement in the U.S. building up, growing and so we think that our broadcast is a support to this antiwar movement.
There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.
Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.
We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.
I am happy with what I've done.
Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.
Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam.
I put my heart in my work.
Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.
How are you, G.I. Joe? It seems to me that most of you are poorly informed about the going of the war, to say nothing about a correct explanation of your presence over here. Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die.