Phil Klay Quotes

Nobody hates a war more than soldiers who have been through it.

Vietnam was my nightmare for a good ten years.

When I came back from Vietnam in 1965, I just had the greatest brainwashing anybody could get…

As a combat veteran, I know the cost of war.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

My father had gone to Vietnam.

That's driven by any number of factors, the most prominent of which have been the combat experience of two major campaigns - one in Afghanistan and the other in Iraq - and the ongoing demands of the global war on terrorism.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can.

My grandparents were deeply affected by war, and it was obvious that the men who fought were horribly affected, as were the women who remained at home.

You know, I had gone to war.

We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.

You know, veterans come home and they may not be bipolar, but after they've been through a war with PTSD or a head injury, their families have a handful when they come home.

I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.

No person can escape Einsteinian relativity, and no soldier or veteran can escape the trauma of war's dislocation.

The Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed by the experience. I was one of the fortunate few who came out better off.

I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.

The notion that war forever separates veterans from the rest of mankind has been long embedded in our collective consciousness.

I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.

As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.

Nothing makes a career like a war.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Soldiers know what war is like. That's why so many of them turn out to be peacemakers.

If you are a real soldier, you never get over the war.

We are at war, and it's ongoing, and there's no end in sight. More and more guys are coming back from it, and the transition back to civilian life is almost too big a mountain to climb.

My own life changed when my father returned from his second combat tour in Vietnam. When he came home after almost a year in Army hospitals, he weighed less than half of what he did when he left. I watched the agonizing recovery, and that experience was on my mind when I was asked to come to VA.