Because I know that some of the hardest days of war were the moments you missed back home -- the birthdays, the anniversaries, when your little girl or boy took their first wobbly steps.
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The conversation moved on to those intense days of war almost 15 years back and we did what any member of the journalist tribe does when gathering after many years apart - slagging off the louder mutual acquaintances and wondering what ever happened to the quiet ones.
In that sense the consortium's news managers were unlucky to be fighting for page space and air time with the closing days of a war that involved the armed forces of both of the main protagonists.
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Back in the days of World War I, which judging by the various memorials stabbed deep at the heart of this place, wine was well established here but probably took second fiddle to wool.
This tradition has been in place at least since the days of World War II.
The fact that it stayed open through the most dramatic days of the war also contributed greatly to Barbar's popularity.
All the information about the nature of the trouble to come was apparent from the very first days of the war.
It was proper to speak of parents the old-fashioned way in the days of World War II and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Cook even delves into a mystery dating from the last days of World War II, when Allied pilots reported seeing UFOs over Germany.
Martin Dempsey, his deputy, who commanded an Army division in Iraq in the early days of the war and led efforts to train the Iraqi military.
Britain, which had the largest contingent after the U.S. - it provided more than 45, 000 troops in the early days of the war - they're down to just over 5, 000, fifty-five hundred troops now.
Community profiles of smaller population groups of the type so commonly released now by the Census Bureau with data from the American Community Survey were not published from the 1940 Census during days of World War II.
Their experience of the American military juggernaut in the first few days of the war was brutal, and many among the British forces now grumble that they have been left to patch up the damage left behind.
"Whether we like it or not, we have to recognize we are on the brink of a major humanitarian disaster in Kosovo, the likes of which have not been seen in Europe since the closing days of World War II, " Shea said.
In many ways, nuclear weapons represent both the darkest days of the Cold War, and the most troubling threats of our time.
George Esper, who reported on the fall of Saigon during the last days of the Vietnam war, has died aged 79 after suffering multiple health problems.
U.S. military analysts figured out during the early days of the Cold War that no effective defense against a large-scale nuclear attack was likely to be feasible.
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It's the latest in a series of grim assessments of al-Assad's chances from Russia, which has been Syria's leading arms supplier since the days of the Cold War.
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One man even died last year from a heart attack brought on by the stress of spending days waging war in an Internet game.
The story of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton, who was caught in the crossfire of a turf war days after performing during the presidential inauguration, was of interest briefly but her story has since faded.
The murder of two within ten days looks to Brazilians like a declaration of war against the state by organised crime.
The seed of today's FORBES GLOBAL was planted at an inauspicious time--in the worst days of a tragic, senseless world war, one that brought to an end the first great era of international commerce.
On the afternoon of March 26th, just six days into the war, he stood on the outskirts of Najaf with Rick Atkinson, the journalist and military historian, and observed combat involving irregular Iraqi fedayeen forces.
The defense secretary refused to comment about another New York Times story, which said that an Iraqi scientist had told an American military team that Iraqis destroyed chemical and biological weapons equipment days before the start of the war in Iraq.
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In retrospect it seems odd and, of course, tragic that in those days, just after World War II, while much of the rest of the world was at least tentatively coming to grips with the embarrassing inequities of racism and colonialism, the Afrikaners were moving their country headlong in the opposite direction.
There are a lot of people in Washington these days claiming to be on the front lines of the war on terror.
Hard or soft, commodities have fuelled desire, greed and war since the days of Pharaoh.
History is replete with examples of the inevitable failure of paper money systems, from our own founding days, to inter-war Germany, to the monetary crisis of 1970s Latin America.
The attacks triggered Britain and France's declaration of war against Germany two days later.
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