Finland, with its memory of war with the Soviet Union, has the largest artillery force in Europe.
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.
At Belfast City Hall, the governor of the Apprentice Boys, Alistair Simpson, laid a wreath at the cenotaph in memory of the war dead.
The memory of that war is bitter for all Lebanese, but perhaps most for those who pinned hopes, in the wake of Israel's 1982 invasion, on American intervention only to see America scuttle the place in 1984 after suicide-bombers killed 241 Marines in Beirut.
Mr Sicilia has called for the "Tower of Light", an existing monument built for the bicentennial of Mexico's independence, to be turned into a "Tower of Peace", in memory of the victims of the drug war.
Father and daughter, tradition and modernity, Japan and the West, and, throughout, the memory and legacy of war these are the conflicts and tensions that are tearing apart two middle-class Tokyo families in this painterly yet confrontational drama, directed by Yasujiro Ozu, from 1958.
"It reversed the Idea of Progress, " writes the literary historian Paul Fussell in "The Great War and Modern Memory, " the single best account of the war's cultural impact.
He had grown up with memory of the post-war period and the Cold War.
On Friday more than 11, 000 empty chairs will be arranged in silent poignant and powerful memory of Sarajevo's war dead.
Although immigration from North Africa is a century-long phenomenon (170, 000 Algerians and 130, 000 Moroccans were recruited to fight for France in the first world war), what sticks in the memory is the bitterness of the Algerian war of 1954-62, when Frenchmen and Algerians killed and tortured each other with enthusiastic brutality.
Now you mentioned that memory of being bombed during World War II.
The Jeep is steeped in rough and tumble imagery that dates back 70 years to the collective memory of stalwart and brazen World War II brigades.
The outbreak of of World War I a year later obscured the memory of Senghenydd in British, if not Welsh minds.
Those leading the call for a referendum, however, are mostly younger Acehnese who have no memory of Indonesia's 1945-49 war of independence against the Dutch.
Amos Luzzatto, president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, said the magistrate had shown "a loss of memory" with regard to World War II atrocities.
With a few notable exceptions - including powerful addresses by former UN Ambassador John Bolton and former Senator Rick Santorum - the program was bereft of the focus one would think 10, 000 people who cherish the memory of Ronald Reagan would have demanded, especially in the midst of a global war with two active combat fronts.
The Buchanan Trust was set up in 1919 in memory of Alan Buchanan, who died during World War I with the aim of providing land to former servicemen.
Secrecy hangs heavy at home, too, for Susan who has, despite an apparently agreeable marriage and two children, never lost her memory of the ecstasy she had found in her war work in the use of her mind, that is.
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Asteroid strikes and nuclear war are, from memory, two of the examples he uses.
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Her father carried gold coins in his sock during the war, so she does it in memory of him.
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Their second goal - and perhaps Olmert's primary objective - was to erase the public's memory of Israel's strategic failure in the Second Lebanon War.
Earlier, one villager, who wished to remain anonymous, branded the decision not to include Wales' anthem a "disgrace to the memory of the Welsh soldiers who fought and died during the war".
The monument, in Guildhall Square, is in memory of the citizens of Salisbury who gave their lives in World War I.
But perhaps the most damning indictment of the weakness of Guatemala's democratic institutions is the unsolved murder of Juan Gerardi, a Catholic bishop who headed the church's Recovery of Historical Memory project, an investigation into who had killed whom during the war.
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Those with a long memory know that the Japanese were originally known after World War II for their exports of so-called dollar blouses.
It's easy to forget that when this war began, we were united -- bound together by the fresh memory of a horrific attack, and by the determination to defend our homeland and the values we hold dear.
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For those with a short memory or an eclectic knowledge of recent history it would have been instructive to mention at least once that the 1967 war was initiated by Israel's Arab neighbours with the explicit intent to annex all of Israel and drive its Jewish inhabitants into the sea.
Britain had in recent memory passed through two wars the Boer war and the Great War that had shown that swathes of its population were, literally, unfit to fight.
He said he was laying the wreath in memory of, and in tribute to, all men who died at the Somme and during all of the First World War.
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