Since the end of the war, the members of the White Rose have become celebrated figures, as German society has searched for positive role models from the Nazi period.
They raised massive amounts of money to fund investment and technology research at an extraordinary scale -- indeed, U.S. spending on the war rose from 1.6% of GDP in 1940 to 37% just five years later.
Between the start and finish of the Korean war, American share prices rose by 28%.
Its scribes included Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle and Winston Churchill (who first rose to minor fame by escaping from a prisoner-of-war camp on the day before he was to have been released).
He rose to prominence as a young theologian in the wake of World War II, calling for modernization in the church, and decades later cemented his influence as the Vatican's chief of doctrine, championing church tradition and reining in Catholics who challenged it.
Obama rose to power, in part, because of his opposition to the war in Iraq.
During World War II, he served in the Philippines and Japan and rose to the rank of staff sergeant.
Mr Greenlaw says the closest precedent was in 1968, when individual, corporate, excise and payroll taxes collectively rose by the equivalent of 3.1% of GDP, mostly to pay for the Vietnam war and to damp down inflation.
Every year on Veterans Day , we baby boomers look around and see fewer and fewer members of the Greatest Generation--our parents and grandparents who rose en mass to fight a terrible war and keep us safe.
President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair stood together in the Rose Garden for the last time Thursday in a news conference that was largely a defense of the Iraq war, an event that has shaped their common legacy.
She was regularly interrogated about her role in the White Rose, but eventually released without charge - a stroke of luck she puts down to her status as a war widow, and to the likelihood that the Gestapo was hoping she would lead them to other co-conspirators.
It was language Palin used when accepting the nomination on Wednesday night when she spoke of the war on terrorism and it was language used by Palin's current pastor, Mike Rose, at Juneau Christian Center.
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