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