Book Quote 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…

— Neil Sheehan

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.

— Neil Sheehan

We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because…

— Neil Sheehan

I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of…

— Neil Sheehan

I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict…

— Neil Sheehan

World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they…

— Neil Sheehan

You remember all those phrases about how 'these people' - Asians - don't value human life like we do. Well if you spend any…

— Neil Sheehan

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

— 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.

— Neil Sheehan

We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that…

— Neil Sheehan

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…

— Neil Sheehan

These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam.

— Neil Sheehan