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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.

Neil Sheehan

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Neil Sheehan
Age: 84 †
Born: 1936
Born: October 27
Died: 2021
Died: January 7
Journalist
War Correspondent
Holyoke
Massachusetts
Cornelius Mahoney Sheehan
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