- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.
- Belief
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since September 11 2001, editors in America have faced some excruciating choices, as the attempt to wage a war against a new kind of enemy sometimes strained the boundaries of our laws and values.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden.
- Assumed
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were long dead. After all, he was born in 1839 and was of age to serve in the Civil War.
- Connections
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- Nov 07, 2020
We made connections between the monsters created by war and the monsters he created, the typical outcast that Whale was attracted to, and the monster in himself, that's inside all of us.
- Nov 07, 2020
I started photographing people on the street during World War II. I used a little box Brownie. Nothing too expensive.
- Korean War
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made hats until I went into the Army. I was drafted during the Korean War.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?
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- Nov 07, 2020