Kids flew B-17s in daylight bombing raids over Germany in World War II. Kids fought in Korea and Vietnam.
I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest jokes are better than the shortest wars.
My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.
World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.
My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.
The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
As the Pentagon makes plans for the largest troop rotation since World War II, I will work with the Armed Services Committee to help make this proposal a reality.
There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he's regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship, the leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.
Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.
World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.
The world has already been saved from war. The question is how Christians can and should live in a world of war as a people who believe that war has been abolished.
After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world.
I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff.
My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.
The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
Now, Jasper, as a great man once said, 'A brave and steadfast heart can overcome any fear.' So don't worry. I'll be back with Benelaius shortly. In the meantime, look about for clues, only don't disturb anything." [...] I knew only too well who that ...
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