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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 15 quotes by Neil Sheehan This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (December 2011) Cornelius Mahoney "Neil" Sheehan (born October 27, 1936) is an American journalist. As a reporter for The New York Times in 1971, Sheehan obtained the classified Pentagon Papers from Daniel Ellsberg. His series of articles revealed a... Read full biography of Neil Sheehan → 1 2 Ctrl → 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... → 0 These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam. 0 I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to... → 0 We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded. 0 You remember all those phrases about how 'these people' - Asians - don't value human life like we do. Well if you spend any time around... → 0 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... → 0 The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other. 0 I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war. 0 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. 0 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... → 0 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. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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