Neil Sheehan Quotes

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• These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam.
• You remember all those phrases about how these people - Asians - dont value human life like we do. Well if you spend any time…
• The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before, and it was very upsetting;…
• We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.
• Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers…
• 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.
• I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my…
• World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would…
• 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…
• I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.
• We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we…
• We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that by…
• I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on…
• The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other.
• 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 their…

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