Neil Sheehan
Journalist
1936-10-27
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Quotes by Neil Sheehan
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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.
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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 prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.
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The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other.
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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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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 them, you discover that they love their children just as much as we love ours. That is certainly true of the Vietnamese.
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