And the Second Continental Congress was meeting in Philadelphia to take control of the war effort.
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Not long after Billy's birth, his father, William Connolly, left to join the war effort in Burma.
This operation comes as the U.S. military is contemplating adding three brigades to the war effort in Afghanistan.
For God's sake and for the sake of the war effort, let's not turn the war into entertainment.
And I just wanted you to weigh in on how big these losses are to the war effort.
In time of conflict, national symbols are frequently used to engage the populace and enlist them in the war effort.
But he left the door open for the administration to return to Congress to seek more money for the war effort.
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McChrystal has the maturity and judgment to continue commanding the war effort.
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This will require, among other things, engaging the American people far more fully in the war effort than they have been to date.
During these years, the American economy transitioned from its focus on industrial production to support the war effort, to one led by consumption.
The onset of the First World War led to a "truce" to concentrate on the war effort, in which women were heavily involved.
Petraeus' observations were similar to those he made when he testified before congressional committees in April about the status of the war effort.
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To achieve this, they curtailed personal consumption and drove remarkable behavior change to free up financial and other resources for the war effort.
The American Kennel Club and a group called Dogs for Defense appealed to owners across the country to donate their pets to the war effort.
They said he would continue to discuss the war effort in smaller groups in coming days, including during his trip to Asia, which starts Thursday.
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The war's outcome was, of course, uncertain, but all of the diarists knew they were expected to contribute to the war effort, some sooner than others.
Rumsfeld announced he would give up the office he has held for six years, and with it his role of chief architect of the war effort.
Petraeus had been selected to lead the war effort, "a sigh of relief could almost be heard throughout" the U.K.'s Ministry of Defence, one British official said.
Rep. Howard Coble of North Carolina said most of his constituents still support the war effort, but he said that support is being tested by continuing losses.
Congressional critics have also lambasted the White House for formally committing to begin withdrawing the surge troops in July 2011, even if the war effort hasn't improved.
The success of the war effort depended on having these ships available and the management figured out better processes and the front-line workers rose to the occasion.
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Bush on Sunday said he was satisfied with the war effort so far, while voicing his condolences for those killed and his concern for those wounded and taken prisoner.
Nonetheless, when the war effort went bad administration critics began to allege all sorts of contractor abuses, and there were just enough Blackwaters in-theater to make the charges seem plausible.
So, the government set out to remind those at home that their efforts were every bit as important to the war effort as were the sacrifices of the frontline fighters.
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As if it wasn't hard enough already to get the truth out about the war effort and generate public support for a truly noble effort, the Army is making it even harder.
And the time has come for Wall Street to join the war effort by making it as financially attractive and easy as possible for other institutional and private investors to do the same.
Perhaps the most obvious is the "Dig for Victory" policy of 1939 that saw 30% of grasslands turned to arable production, as Britain sought to grow enough food to support the war effort.
"As long as the Allied forces can keep (southern Iraq) under control, the upcoming earnings season may soon have more impact on stocks than the war effort, " says Jack Bowers , editor of Fidelity Monitor.
The Washington Post finds no truth to the allegations, led by Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich.), that Pentagon leaders set up their own unauthorized bureaucracy to collect their own intelligence and shape the rationale for the war effort.
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