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. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#another #best #book #done #happened

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. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#because #covering #event #generation #got

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

#away #could #first #get #i

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. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#break #car #gasoline #just #just because

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

— Neil Sheehan

#countries #each #occurred #other #two

These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#blamed #fighting #man #men #never

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#genuinely #had #leadership #military #period

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

#good #right #simply #succeed #thought