A lot of writer of intellectuals in shed walked out to the battlefield after Japan declared war on China in 1937. They told many stories from the battlefield with the folk style.

抗战爆发后，大批“亭子间”的作家知识分子走向战场，开始学习采用大众最喜闻乐见的方式讲述战场上的故事；

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People began hearing the phrase by the grapevine to describe false as well as true reports from the battlefield.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

He is riding from the ships or wherever he is from the camp to the battlefield.

他们开着战车从任何地方,船或营地一路到达战场

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The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."

VOA: special.2009.01.19

Air Force doctors admit that they are using battlefield acupuncture to treat severely wounded troops as they are taken from the battlefield to Andrews Air Force Base and to Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

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The ICRC said ground fire casualties could not be evacuated from the battlefield to hospitals in Baghdad because U.S. and Iraqi forces were not letting ambulances through.

CNN: Iraq 'chaos' hinders aid, groups say

They have witnessed great milestones in our Nation's history, and from the battlefield to the factory floor to their neighborhoods, our grandparents' tireless pursuit of progress has paved the road that we travel today.

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