Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away.
I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.
When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.
Obama and the Democrats were so critical of what Bush did, the interrogations, the secret prisons, Guantanamo and all of that, and even the war on terror. Obama won't use the word. He's made war on the war on terror.
And on the war, I think my numbers would be a lot higher if I were out there beating the drum for this war. In fact, I don't think it, I know it. But I can't be for the war.
The bottom line is that the CIA knew before the war, during and war, and after the war where most of these chemicals were and most of these biological agents.
Personally I believe that the courses we followed for some years after World War II were enlightened, surprisingly imaginative and extremely effective.
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.
