It's a very hard thing to send any child that you have raised off to war.
He went off to war to fight for our country, and lost his legs as a result.
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The women had hit it off at a dinner the night before they sent their sons off to war.
They became engaged a year and a half later, just before he went off to war as a Navy torpedo bomber pilot.
The scenes between Tywin and Arya have been so entirely excellent I felt a pang of regret to see Tywin march off to war.
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To the parents who watch their sons and daughters go off to war, and the children who wonder when mom and dad is coming home.
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In my day you went off to war: World War II, the Korean conflict and Vietnam to get your tuition money from the government.
Both were assigned to infantry divisions and shipped off to war.
If, when they were going off to war at our age, our grandparents wanted to remind themselves of their life and family before leaving, they would look at a few framed photographs on the wall.
Born in Brooklyn, the son of Russian immigrants, Eisenstadt got a degree in statistics from the City College of New York and then went off to war in 1943, serving in Europe with the Army's 8th Armored Division.
The man who reigns over centuries of elitism and grandeur at Covent Garden's Royal Opera House in London wears a plain, unpretentious pair of cuff links that belonged to his grandfather a hard-working Liverpool docker who went off to war in 1914 as a humble private.
And it was that greatest generation that built America into the greatest force of prosperity and opportunity and freedom that the world has ever known -- Americans like my grandfather, who went off to war just boys, then returned home as men, and then they traded in one uniform and set of responsibilities for another.
She worked -- when my grandfather went off to World War II, she worked on an assembly line, making bombers.
My father (who helped me pay for it) had owned one in Long Beach just before he went off to the War.
Soon, however, another generation of young Angolans will be rounded up and packed off to fight a war that neither side can win.
If you go off to report a war in a foreign country, you know what you are going to get into and you are prepared for it.
Britain emerged from the first world war with debt at 140% of GDP and prices more than double their pre-war level, but it was determined to pay off its debt and return the pound to its pre-war value against gold.
My grandfather marched off to Europe in World War II, while my grandmother worked in factories on the home front.
Theirs is the kind of enthusiasm and unbridled patriotism that young Americans had as they proudly marched off to fight in World War II.
We'll also be speaking with an editorial page editor about the heartbreak and pride that he felt as he sent his son off to fight in the war.
Soon their attacks brought the PSN down, but they officially called off the war due to the fact that it appeared they were hurting consumers more than the corporation.
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This new sanctimoniousness, said officials, was a precaution to ward off a hue-and-cry from Jordan's Islamists, already restive over King Abdullah's hands-off approach to the looming war on Iraq.
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His father, a strict disciplinarian, first placed his hopes in the oldest son, Reginald, but he had gone off to fight in World War I and came home incapacitated, one lung destroyed by mustard gas, leaving the family's future to Albert, who was twelve years younger but precociously eager.
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India is to back off from its threat of war and, eventually, to resume talks with Pakistan on Kashmir.
The drop was attributed to a price war touched off by Hope Group when it cut feed prices by up to 25%.
Bush says he's ready to cast off outdated Cold War strategies, and have the United States lead by example in cutting its nuclear arsenal.
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But in the south's incipient state of anarchy, these men, such as General Athor, may become rebels all over again, and head off into the bush to wage war, often backed by their own ethnic groups.
With no mean skill, the Kazakh president, Nursultan Nazarbaev, has used the Afghan war to play off the various bidders for influence in his country.
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