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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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