Books tell me that war is an occasion for solidarity and a great national rising above.
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"For me the war is still present - it's present in all the families that do not know the truth about what has happened, " says Father Cortina, who spent much of the war as a parish priest in one of the most conflict-ridden areas of the country.
"You know very well this is a pretext of a political war between President Basescu and me, a war each of us leads with their own weapons, " he said.
One of the stories about war that has always haunted me is that of World War I soldiers fighting and dying as the clock ticked down to the war's end.
The conflict in Iraq "didn't strike me as a war that was affecting people in my life, " Bowers-Defino said.
What has always fascinated me about World War I was the fundamental change that this titanic futility worked in the way English-speaking people thought.
And an opponent who calls me ending the war in Iraq "tragic, " or suggests that somehow we should stay longer in Afghanistan has a very different world view, different perspective.
It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore.
It was not smart for me to oppose the war at the start of this war, but I did so because it was the right thing to do.
"It reminds me so much of the war on drugs, " said Levins, a former district attorney in New York.
One retired General, Jim Dubik, who helped mastermind the surge in Iraq and is now a senior fellow at the Institute for the Study of War, told me that for eight years America adopted the wrong strategy, counter-terrorism, which allowed the Taliban to grow.
Another time a descendant of a high ranking Revolutionary War general sent me their family treasure, also a letter from General Washington, only to find out that someone a century earlier had copied the original onto laid paper, the very kind of paper that Washington had used (shown below).
Watching from the balcony, I knew then, for certain, that the war had forever changed me.
He, in turn, introduces me to Brandon, an Iraq war veteran who is maybe 6-foot-6 and 230 pounds.
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The clattering sound made me think of the old TV war series, MASH.
This fight reminds me of an earlier, similar war-the war on crime.
After the war, he told me, President Harry Truman asked him if people were saying unpleasant things to him because of the bomb.
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.
Although I hope to follow in my teacher's footsteps, my path for now is blocked by the uncertainty of living far from home, by a war that has driven me here, by tuition costs in Jordan that are prohibitively expensive.
Consider just two examples: the early American "Dont Tread on Me" flag and WWII Office of War Information posters.
After the war, they tried to compromise me, to destroy my reputation.
Mr. Powell's war-hawk foes seemed to me both bullying and unrealistic.
That is the part of war that has made an impression on me, as isolated from it as I am.
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It seemed to me at the time that Kodak was fighting a war on multiple fronts and losing across the board.
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