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I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.

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Neil Sheehan

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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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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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 couldnt bring myself to understand that the policy itself was wrong.

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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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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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