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)

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

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