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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."

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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 of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent."

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"The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before, and it was very upsetting; but I still couldn't bring myself to understand that the policy itself was wrong."

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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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"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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"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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"The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other."

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"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 carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people."

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