Neil Sheehan Quotes

Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions.

I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.

You come back from war, and you have a certain authority to talk about war.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can.

If you are a real soldier, you never get over the war.

Vietnam was my nightmare for a good ten years.

My grandparents were deeply affected by war, and it was obvious that the men who fought were horribly affected, as were the women who remained at home.

My fascination with war is because my dad was in World War II, and my brother was in Vietnam.

Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

As a combat veteran, I know the cost of war.

I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

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

My father had gone to Vietnam.

I don't think I'd call myself a war writer, but I would probably say I'm a writer who has written about war.

I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.

The notion that war forever separates veterans from the rest of mankind has been long embedded in our collective consciousness.

I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.

It makes twenty years or more of peace to make a man. It takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Soldiers know what war is like. That's why so many of them turn out to be peacemakers.

Nobody hates a war more than soldiers who have been through it.

When I came back from Vietnam in 1965, I just had the greatest brainwashing anybody could get…

I didn't see conflict during the Vietnam War, but I did lose close friends.

That's the worst of a war--you have to go on hearing about it so long.