Philosophy Quote by Michael G. Kramer — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“As well, they used their B-52 bombers to drop thousands of tons of bombs which included napalm and cluster bombs. In a particularly vile attack, they used poisonous chemicals on our base regions of Xuyen Moc, the Minh Dam and the Nui Thi Vai mountains. They sprayed their defoliants over jungle, and productive farmland alike. They even bull-dozed bare, both sides along the communication routes and more than a kilometre into the jungle adjacent to our base areas.”

“It is a matter of record that I was diagnosed as suffering from PTSD.”

“People of various parts of France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Poland, the USSR, and other places, were living among the ruins in the best way that they could. Because I was alone and homeless as well as confused, I opted to join the French Foreign Legion. When I was in the Wehrmacht, I thought that their discipline was extreme. However, it was nothing when compared to the discipline as practised by the Foreign Legion!”

“After I return to Australia, I promise you that I shall… qualify as an engineer and then return here and help your people out.”

“He said, “Sir, we are in a very bad position! We have lost many soldiers KIA (Killed in Action) and many more are wounded. Sir, today is the twenty third of March, and I suggest that we get the hell out of the entire Hoa Binh area before we all end up as dead men!”

“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery”

“If you think life is magical or life is hard, either way you are right. Your thoughts are the source of reality.”

“In this lifetime”

“I wonder how often I occupy spaces that were recently inhabited by dead people. I wonder who will occupy the spaces I've inhabited, after I'm dead.”

“Care and Quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who’s bound to have some characteristic of quality.”

“Faith in God is optional, but faith in the self – in the spirit within, is imperative.”