Trịnh Thị Ngọ Quotes

Let’s let bygones be bygones. Let’s move on and be friends. There will be many benefits if we can be friends together. There is no reason to be enemies

We bought the music from progressive Americans who came to visit Hanoi. We also have our own music, but I think that the G.I.s like to listen to American music, it's more suitable to their ears.

Hanoi Hannah was clearly one of the most prominent broadcasters we had in the history of the Voice of Vietnam and the country in general. She will be remembered for her legendary voice in broadcasts targeting American servicemen. Her influence on Vietnam’s success against the US was huge.

G.I., your government has abandoned you. They have ordered you to die. Don’t trust them. They lied to you, G.I.s, you know you cannot win this war.

I heard her every day. She’s a marvelous entertainer. I’m surprised she didn’t get to Hollywood.

As quoted in her memoirs in " "Bí ẩn của Hanoi Hannah": Giọng đọc huyền thoại ám ảnh lính Mỹ" in Sputnik News Vietnam (20 February 2018)

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 or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what’s going on.

Our program served for a cause, so we believed in that cause. So we continued to broadcast.

Isn't it clear that the war makers are gambling with your lives, while pocketing huge profits?

Now for our talk. A Vietnam black G.I. who refuses to be a victim of racism is Billy Smith. It seems on the morning of March 15th a fragmentation grenade went off in an officer’s barracks in Bien Hoa killing two gung-ho lieutenants. Smith was illegally searched, arrested and put in Long Binh jail and brought home for trial. The evidence that showed him guilty was this: being black, poor and against the war and refusing to be a victim of racism.

Defect, G.I. It is a very good idea to leave a sinking ship. You know you cannot win this war.

She struck me mainly as an intellectual. Certainly didn't remind me of a strident propagandist at all.

We mentioned that G.I.s should go AWOL and suggested some frigging, or that is fragging. We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.

I wanted to join the Voice of Vietnam because it was a good opportunity to help my country. I was not political. I was patriotic

My goal was to tell G.I.s they shouldn’t participate in a war that wasn’t theirs. I tried to be friendly and convincing. I didn’t want to be shrill or aggressive. For instance, I referred to the Americans as the adversary. I never called them the enemy.