I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could … - Neil Sheehan

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Neil Sheehan

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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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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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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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 gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them.

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