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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
"As the last witnesses to the horrors of World War II leave us, it is vital, it is imperative, to keep alive the memory and example of individuals like Raoul Wallenberg, " she said, describing Mr Wallenberg as a man of "moral courage and heroic example".
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