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.
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 publi… - 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 publi…
- 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
I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.
You remember all those phrases about how these people - Asians - dont value human life like we do. Well if you spend any time around them, you discov… - Neil Sheehan
You remember all those phrases about how these people - Asians - dont value human life like we do. Well if you spend any time around them, you discov…
The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before, and it was very upsett… - 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 upsett…
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 were Americans. - 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 we were Americans.
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 pre… - 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 would pre…
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 cov… - 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 cov…
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 papers, they gave me… - 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 their papers, they gave me…
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 b… - Neil Sheehan
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 b…
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