Covering Quote by 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 my generation and I started out covering it so I stayed with it.”

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

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I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.

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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…

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

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