Iran, which lost 300, 000 men in its war with Iraq, is alive to the danger of being sucked into a regional war.
But it was a few years later, walking through the vineyards just north of Epernay in the Marne Valley, that I became aware of the historical significance of a landscape that saw the destruction of thousands of young men in World War I.
Walter Tull, one of the first black footballers to play in England, led men in Italy during the war and was killed at aged 29 on the Somme in 1918.
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His comments came after Mr Clarke had questioned Mr McCann about three men named in his book War And An Irish Town.
In new memorial stones on the Celtic cross list the full names of the men who died in both World War I and World War II, and includes an additional four names that were missed by the original plaque that was unveiled back in 1953.
And because of the service and sacrifice of our brave men and women, the war in Iraq is over.
Because of the service and sacrifice of our brave men and women in uniform, the war in Iraq is over. (Applause.) The war in Afghanistan is coming to a close. (Applause.) Al Qaeda has been decimated.
The men were the first Japanese casualties in the war in Iraq.
Pre-publication leaks tried to cast Mr Brown as the champion of defence: he would fund fully two new aircraft carriers, as well as the Typhoon fighter and the Joint Strike Fighter, all the while maintaining the army at about 100, 000 men and remaining committed to the war in Afghanistan.
There are many men and children who have got lost in the war.
But we admire these young men who joined the military in a time of war, when there is definitely a danger.
After a decade of grinding war, our brave men and women in uniform are coming home.
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Relations between the two men were excellent until they became embroiled in the Congo war.
Ian Mould, 45, from Bedford, wants to honour thousands of men from the "Bedfords" who died in World War I.
It is understandable as an adult male spent a fair part of his life at war in the exclusive company of men who depended on each other for survival.
The plaque remembers more than 100 men from Sharp Street who signed up to fight in World War I.
As the conflict darkened and as many men lost their lives in what seemed like a never ending war, many lost faith.
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And these are the men and women we shall honor every day, in times of war and times of peace, so long as our nation endures.
The high school dropout enlisted in the Army and was awarded the Bronze Star for valor in the Korean War after he helped rescue 40 men trapped behind Chinese lines.
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Many men in the Diet are opposed to abortion, as their pre-war predecessors were, although for different reasons.
Interestingly, this weapon is not being wielded by our men and women in uniform on the far-flung battlefields of this war.
Both men present themselves in mainly personal terms: Mr Bush as the resolute war president, Mr Kerry as the thoughtful Vietnam vet.
On the other sides, they show maps of Europe near the end of World War II, ripped by arrows representing the millions of men in armed divisions battling each other over diametrically opposed visions of what the future of Europe should be.
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We memorialize the armies of men, and women disguised as men, black and white, who fell in apple orchards and cornfields in a war that saved our union.
Football played a key part in both men managing to survive the mental scars of their experiences during World War II with Mr Hughes even enjoying a kickaround on the beaches of Dunkirk.
In World War I, Europe lost almost an entire generation of young men.
For example: Men, habituated to teaming up in forms of disciplined aggression and governance (hunting, war, politics), possess well-developed, wary instincts about other men, including their qualities of leadership.
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We have recently focused our work on healing the generations of boys and men of color that live in our communities as well as those who are returning from war with the wounds of their life and life circumstances.
But there is one thing we know already: the Americans that went to war in Iraq served their country as well as any generation of fighting men and women in our remarkable history.
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