Neil Sheehan Quotes

I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.

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

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

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.

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.

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