The highest distinction is service to others.
I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win
The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.
During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.
Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I.
One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.
My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.
I was essentially trained by World War II vets who combined a progressive view of life with a deep distrust of anything authoritarian.
It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.
This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm very doubtful about the usefulness of poetry to do that.
My grandfather was in World War II and fought in Europe in Army Infantry, so I have such a huge respect for him, and he's shared some personal experiences with me.
Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.
After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century.
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
Every show you do, you have to do research, and I love to dig into things. I learned about World War II by doing 'Anne Frank.'
The women of Afghanistan, left behind as their men fought, did what the women of World War II did - used their wits and resourcefulness to preserve some semblance of civilization.
I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.
We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.
Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.
