Goodreads asked Michael G. Kramer:

If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Michael G. Kramer I would travel back in time and ask the forgiveness of the people of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos (these countries made up what was known as French Indochina). No matter what anyone says about it, the facts are that the allies interfered with a sovereign nation before invading it and committing many war crimes upon the population of Vietnam. Examples of these war crimes are the bombing of the civilian areas of Haiphong and Hanoi, the indiscriminate use of "Agent Orange' which was sprayed in saturation quantities upon jungle, villages and what was once productive farmland. Added to that were incidences of deliberate artillery shelling of Vietnamese civilians who were herding their cattle between Hoa Long andLong Phuc and other places close to Nui Dat. Once or twice may have been accidental, but the shelling occurred sixteen times! Therefore it was not accidental! Although I am proud of my service during the war, I still face the ghosts of those whom I killed in the name of "Freedom" in the eyes of the Aussie and USA Governments. Anyone who says a war is justified is a fool! For more information about this, read "A Gracious Enemy", available from Amazon.

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