The day began with Mr Kaczynski and his Prime Minister Donald Tusk joining war veterans beside a monument to the heroes of Westerplatte at 0445 (0245 GMT).
It took some searching to find a single precedent, William Jennings Bryan, a pacifist who had resigned as secretary of state in 1915 because he believed American policy favoured joining the war in Europe.
The artist served as an officer in the 1st Gurkha Rifles in World War II, before joining a course at Maidstone College of Art.
He won a scholarship to Pontypridd Boys' Grammar School, and became a teacher in London before joining the Welch Regiment when World War II broke out.
Perez plays a womanizing yet gallant action hero of the 18th Century, who mocks war but ends up joining the army to avoid marrying yet another of his conquests.
They were part of that Greatest Generation -- surviving the Depression, joining the Army, serving in World War II.
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Mr. Hammons worked as an accountant on the Alaska Highway project before joining the U.S. Merchant Marine during World War II.
Braque's joining of these symbols, in the context of the war, suggests that in this "Vanitas" we find what one might call a Christian message of ultimate hope, with its brilliant palette serving as a sign of faith's bold confidence in the face or fact of death.
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Growing up, Briganti said, he had sometimes considered joining the military, following in the footsteps of his father, a World War II veteran.
Serbia's hopes of joining the EU were for many years frozen pending the capture of two of the Bosnian war's most high-profile war crimes suspects, Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic.
Indeed, beginning with this still life, the joining of the skull with other symbols appears in Braque's mature work only on the eve of World War II, with these combinations continuing during the Nazi Occupation.
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