Mr Nagashima admits there is little chance the party would go as far as its more hawkish antagonist, the Liberal Democratic Party, which is mulling a manifesto pledge to change article nine of Japan's constitution, drafted by the American victors in 1947, which forever renounces war as a way of settling disputes.

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Veterans of war live forever with the memory of war's merciless nature, of the awful things that had to be done by their hand.

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Hawaii could not receive economic benefits forever from the Vietnam War, which ended in 1975.

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Watching from the balcony, I knew then, for certain, that the war had forever changed me.

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The war that forever changed me was Vietnam.

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In the second world war Montenegrin partisans were forever weaving in and out of Serbia and Bosnia.

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"I believe there is no need for Iran to be at war with the U.S. forever, " he said.

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Now and forever, let us keep faith with our Korean War veterans by upholding the ideals they fought to protect, and by supporting them with the care and respect they so deeply deserve.

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America was changed forever by women stepping up and doing that work during the war.

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Excerpt: In my youth, we had fought a war to put the world back the way it was before the war started, only to find that the fighting itself had changed it radically and forever.

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