"At least I'm at peace with myself. I……" — Neil Sheehan
"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."
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15 Quotes by Neil Sheehan
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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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You remember all those phrases about how these people - Asians - dont value human life like we do. Well…
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The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before,…
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We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.
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Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause…
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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…
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I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it…
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World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began…
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I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get…
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We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would…
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We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would…
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I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the…
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