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War Quotes
War, remembered and reckoned with.
This topic pairs literary observation, such as a novelist's take on the social fabric depicted in a sprawling Tolstoy epic, with hard historical fact about the 1962 border conflict between China and India. Readers interested in broader historical context can visit History.
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Richard Kerry not only was a pilot in World War II, but was a civil servant. He did not come from money.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can only imagine the history of the free world today if, at the end of the Civil War, there had been two countries: the United States and the Confederate States of America.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The D-Day moniker wasn't invented for the Allied invasion. The same name had been attached to the date of every planned offensive of World War II. It was first coined during World War I, at the U.S. attack at the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, in France in 1918.
- Bridge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Edmund Pettus Bridge - which in 2013 was declared a National Historic Landmark - isn't symbolic of the Civil War in a meaningful way. It is, however, the modern-day battlefield where the voting rights movement was born.
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
History chalks up Mr. McKinley's War as a U.S. win, and he also polls favorably as a 'near great' president.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people say 'Lysistrata' has always been seen as an anti-war play, what's interesting is to not make it an anti-war play, because I actually think there are important times to go to war in this world. That's just the reality. But what's interesting is the not caring.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are a country that has many friends, many allies, when we operate in the world, we operate with friends and allies that's been true for decades and if we wind up going to war in Iraq it will be true in Iraq.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first met the survivors of the Indianapolis in 1999 while writing a book about them, their story - the last major action of World War II - was rarely mentioned in high school textbooks. This is despite the fact that, before its torpedoing, the ship had delivered components of the atomic bomb Little Boy to Tinian Island.
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- Nov 07, 2020