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> [At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and why it happened and it's done, it's published. I won't write another book on Vietnam.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-sheehan/at-least-i-m-at-peace-with-myself-i-have-done-my-best-to-write-a-book/)

[Neil Sheehan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-sheehan/)

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## More by Neil Sheehan

> [The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before, and it was very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-sheehan/the-destruction-of-civilian-hamlets-the-killing-and-the-wounding-of/)

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> [Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-sheehan/just-because-you-put-higher-octane-gasoline-in-your-car-doesn-t-mean/)

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> [We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-sheehan/we-thought-that-whatever-we-wanted-to-do-was-right-and-good-simply/)

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> [I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-sheehan/i-never-got-away-from-the-war-not-because-i-was-obsessed-with-it-in/)

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> [I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-sheehan/i-think-you-have-to-remember-that-americans-saw-their-purpose-as-so/)

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> [World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-sheehan/world-war-ii-had-been-such-a-tremendous-success-story-for-this/)

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> [You remember all those phrases about how 'these people' - Asians - don't value human life like we do. Well if you spend any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-sheehan/you-remember-all-those-phrases-about-how-these-people-asians-don-t/)

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> [We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-sheehan/we-had-a-military-and-political-leadership-at-that-period-which-was/)

[Neil Sheehan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-sheehan/)

> [I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-sheehan/i-went-to-vietnam-it-was-my-first-assignment-as-a-reporter-for-the/)

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> [We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-sheehan/we-wanted-to-see-this-country-win-the-war-just-as-much-as-those/)

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> [People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-sheehan/people-talked-to-me-in-a-way-i-think-they-would-not-have-talked-to/)

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> [At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and why it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-sheehan/at-least-i-m-at-peace-with-myself-i-have-done-my-best-to-write-a-book/)

[Neil Sheehan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-sheehan/)

> [These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-sheehan/these-men-were-wrongfully-rejected-the-veterans-the-fighting-man/)

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> [The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-sheehan/the-unthinkable-occurred-two-communist-countries-went-to-war-with/)

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> [“When Gene Crutchfield brought his troubled friend to Hopkins in 1938, Hopkins was twenty-four years old and in charge of LeKies Memorial, the Methodist…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-sheehan/when-gene-crutchfield-brought-his-troubled-friend-to-hopkins-in-1938/)

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