Three years later war broke out and he was stuck with soldiering until it ended in 1945.
If we exclude the demobilization periods following the end of World War II (three years) and the Korean War (two years) when spending declined, it has gone up 95% of the time.
Three years after the war began, the U.S. military has learned hard lessons in Iraq.
After being kicked out of Ohio University for unruly behavior, he joined the Navy and served for three years during World War II.
Then during the Second World War, he survived more than three years in Japanese prisoner of war camps.
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The outbreak of war three years later seemed to pull down the curtain on her career.
South Korea, he points out, opened its first exchange in 1956, only three years after the Korean war.
Copper Mountain started the price war three years ago by offering a season pass allowing four family members to ski for close to the price of one.
After the first three years of the Revolutionary War, every patriot recognized two men as the greatest warriors and leaders of the time: George Washington commander of the Continental Army, and Benedict Arnold, captor of Fort Ticonderoga, invader of Canada, and victor of the battle of Saratoga.
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The last three years, culminating in a war-induced standstill in much of the international economy, have been a special test.
He spent three years in a prisoner of war camp and after several attempts to escape, he finally managed to break out and get to Poland.
And once the war had started three years ago, would he have reveled in the swift advance to Baghdad, proclaiming victory, had he known that the invaders were leaving behind them the makings of a sanguinary insurrection?
Jonathan Sumption's majestic three-volume history of the Hundred Years War, published over ten years from 1999, ends in 1399.
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The BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo says these were the biggest overtly political disturbances in the north since the war ended more than three years ago.
After serving three years in the Army during the Korean War, he earned a master's degree in American history from the University of Wisconsin in 1956.
America's Bill Tilden, one of the game's greatest players, won back-to-back post-war titles, but within three years French men were following Lenglen's lead in dominating their event.
Bottom line: EU backsliding will promptly remove any moral mantle Europeans who opposed the war in Iraq wrapped themselves in three years ago.
The parade has missed just three years since then, from 1942 through 1944 during World War II.
Most stockmarkets have fallen in each of the past three years, and many investors are hoping that getting the war out of the way will stop the rot.
He pointed out how violations of the truce were extremely rare in ancient times, whereas in recent years the games have been cancelled three times due to war.
Three years on, what are the lessons for post-war state-building?
He spent three years trying to return to active duty in this time of war, and he was preparing to deploy to Iraq as a captain.
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Mr. ROBERT YOUNG PELTON (Author, "Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror"): Well, I spent three years on the ground with security contractors.
In the space of 4 years during World War II, we borrowed the equivalent of three to five times the amount we'd need to borrow to save Social Security over a 20-year period.
Three times in the past 50 years, Jordan has been inundated with Palestinians fleeing war.
The 47-year-old, a cartoonist himself, took three years to complete his survey, published in book form under the title Manga and War.
At the beginning of the war people were not afraid to go out but after two or three years the violence really started to increase.
Jewish groups and lawyers for Holocaust survivors had been clamouring for three years for the return of wealth that flowed through neutral Switzerland during the second world war.
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