"Because of their age, a lot of war memorials are beginning to fade and we want to make sure that the information on them is preserved for posterity, " said Mr Rees.
After its harsh birth in Korea and its stormy Vietnamese adolescence, America's fully-integrated army finally came of age in the Gulf war, the climax of Ms Buckley's story.
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Having come of age just as the Vietnam war was winding down, I felt a twinge of excitement.
For years I assumed my musical obsession with nuclear war was simply the product of coming of age under Reagan, the Cold War, and the television movie The Day After.
The result, the author contends, was the post-war golden age of prosperity and social harmony.
It is a charge that resonates beyond romantics who recall the post-war golden age of cabinet government when Whitehall was a collection of ministerial baronies, each run by a big beast and overseen by a prime minister who was merely primus inter pares.
Among older age groups, higher shares of Gulf War-era veterans than nonveterans were employed.
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However, Benjamin Wittes, a senior fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution and author of Law and the Long War: The Future of Justice in the Age of Terror, has some reservations.
On this Memorial Day, it is important to remember that much of the technological revolution that we celebrate today was the product of war--and that most of the great inventions of the electronics age were originally designed to destroy property and kill human beings.
In 1202, around the age of twenty-one, he himself went to war, in a battle between Assisi and Perugia.
Until the first world war, and an encounter at the age of 38 with a soldier on a beach near Alexandria, he was painfully virginal.
Appeals judges also rejected Marshall's argument that he should be spared prison because of his age, illness and service as a World War II veteran and U.S. ambassador.
Just as World War II defined the beginning of the modern age, the sinking of the Titanic really marked the end of the 19th Century.
The pic shows a 3-year-old boy, the same age as my own son, waving to me from in front of his war-torn house.
If, when they were going off to war at our age, our grandparents wanted to remind themselves of their life and family before leaving, they would look at a few framed photographs on the wall.
By 1941 all women under the age of 60, without children under 14, could be called up for essential war work.
Richard came of an age looking up to the men who had helped shape the post-war world -- Dean Acheson, Averill Harriman, Clark Clifford, Dean Rusk.
Remarkably enough, it has been argued by senior U.S. government officials, among others, that the Gulf war actually demonstrated once and for all the irrelevance of strategic depth in the age of ballistic missiles.
And yes it is about the war in Iraq and how we work with the rest of the world in this age of terror.
It is true that in recent decades, the rate of income growth has been much slower even in good times than in the Golden Age following World War II.
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We watch Satellite as, true to his name, he brings television (and therefore news of war) to a clamoring community, and, far worse, we watch the teen-age Agrin (Avaz Latif) try, with awful persistence, to put a stop to her own suffering and to that of her illegitimate child.
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