The schoolboys he taught before and after the second world war, and the war itself, cast a blight on his view of humanity.
Never was the mismatch between the idea of the war and the war itself more apparent.
It evoked all sorts of emotions and comments about the war itself and what America's role ought to be in that part of the world.
And the young are driven by a convergence story: Whereas their fathers were divided by the history of war and their grandfathers by war itself, today's young people are only separated from each other by the sound plugs in their ears.
Heavy on multimedia, the exhibition begins nearly 3, 000 years ago, by at least 776BC, when the Greek empire covered much of Europe and was at war with itself.
He grew up in the quiet environment of a comfortably well-off family, whose attitudes had been shaped by memories of the War itself and the uncertainty of the post-War austerity years.
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Picula told Reuters Del Ponte and Racan would probably seek to speed up the process of tracking down and extraditing war criminals and added that the Croatian judiciary itself would also want to play an active part.
But he would not have undergone the psychological damage of two crushing defeats that still lay ahead, and he would not have been presiding over a country at war in Southeast Asia and with itself.
The war itself, and the prolonged diplomatic wrangle that preceded it, have been widely blamed for holding back economic growth worldwide.
The start of his second term coincides with mounting concern in countries that have sent troops over casualty numbers and the progress of the war itself.
This would enable the Bush administration to declare a kind of victory (for its latest strategy, if not for the war itself) and to begin drawing down the troop levels soon.
So he believes that maybe the quid pro quo for helping the Americans on all this - even if it is only limited help - will be to have less Western criticism of Russian action in Chechnya itself and the war there.
Some argue that the uncertainties caused first by the prospect of war and now by the conflict itself are the only obstacle to a sustained recovery.
But also pain and bewilderment at the confusions of war itself, the shocking photographs of the innocent dead, the media experts with their daily questioning of how things are being run.
We understand that the issue of immunity is of very specific importance for the United States, as was for us the issue of sovereignty and detentions and the continued presence of international forces in Afghan villages and the very conduct of the war itself.
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But war itself is never glorious, and we must never trumpet it as such.
Post-war Germany bound itself with rules and treaties in order to resist past temptations: a strong constitution to restrain politicians, fiscal rules to banish hyperinflation, the EU to tame nationalism.
El Salvador wants to rid itself of its guerilla war reputation and glean a new image: fruit-filled jungles, coffee plantations, Pacific beaches and the multimillion dollar business of repairing Boeing-made jetliners.
In case you hadn't heard, Google is in a turf war with Facebook, and the turf is the Web itself.
Indeed, it was that very dissonance between the game description and the game itself that led Valve to pull The War Z from Steam in the first place.
Microsoft certainly knows a thing or two about anti-trust suits, and if the kids at Google are to be believed the company is waging something of a proxy war on them by injecting itself in lawsuits and complaints brought up by third parties.
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But some have gone further west to the coastal city of Izmir - a place itself scarred by wanton killing and destruction in World War I.
What we found however in the war was that the Army in effect disbanded itself and by the time Jerry Bremer was heading off to assume the leadership of the Coalition Provisional Authority, there was no Army left as an organization.
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Ten years ago, in the shadow of the crater at Ground Zero, the smoldering Pentagon and a field of honor in Pennsylvania, America found itself at war.
Alexander Hamilton, the subject of this penetrating portrait, was in the thick of it all-from the agitation preceding the American Revolution, through the war itself (as a key staffer for George Washington and then as a courageous officer in the field), to the writing and adopting of the Constitution, to the rise of partisan politics.
The game itself is looking like a mix of Uncharted and Gears of War.
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The central one is that his review of three decades of American policy fails to distinguish sufficiently between the cost to Latin America of the drug war, on the one hand, and of the illegal drug industry itself on the other.
The market finds itself in a tug of war between negative headlines from Europe and encouraging data in the U.S., and over the past few weeks optimism has won the day.
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Emptied of all aspirations and ideology, the Japanese spent the next seven years (the allied occupation lasted almost twice as long as the Pacific war itself) having their minds filled with a wholly new vision and set of dreams.
It rebuilt itself after the Second World War, its shipping, motor manufacturing and electronics business leading the world.
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