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Piedrahita's other roommates are Paul K. Kim '96, Douglas W. Scott '96 and Brendan D. Sheehan '96, Joshua I. Solomon '96 was a member of the rooming group sophomore year...
...fresh, interesting ways. He recaptures the days when Saigon was still considered a journalistic backwater, a low rung on the promotion ladder for ambitious reporters. And he describes in considerable detail the reporters who arrived there in the early 1960s, particularly Malcolm Browne of the Associated Press, Neil Sheehan of United Press International and David Halberstam of the New York Times...
...three, particularly Halberstam, won fame as pioneering antiwar critics after their Vietnam stints were over. But, says Prochnau, "the idea that this early group carried with them an antimilitary bent, polluting a generation of reporters, is one of the enduring myths of the war." The author quotes Sheehan: "We all believed in the American cause." Halberstam sent a message to James Reston of the Times: "I am impressed by what a bold and difficult thing we have undertaken here ... we are going up against the best revolutionaries of our time on their home ground in a type of war which...
...There was some feeling of should [we] be goingto college or not," Sheehan remambers. "Theadministration kept assuring us that it would bemore valuable if we finished our work...
...Sheehan says the administration encouraged thewomen to study science in order to help nationaldefense...