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 bookhappenpeace Change image and share on social
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. Neil Sheehan asianchilddiscover share on social
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 americangoodsimply Change image and share on social
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. Neil Sheehan constantlydiaryexperience share on social
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. Neil Sheehan bringciviliandestruction share on social
