This century opened with the horror of chemical warfare in the trenches of World War I.
It was a flame that somehow found its way into the Belleau Wood and to the trenches of World War One.
On a pitch resembling the trenches of World War One, the match was a battle, with passing near impossible - the ball simply stopping in the mud.
Decca and other companies built the first portable record players for the trenches of the Great War and created an explosive domestic market.
Here at this memorial, we recall our shared sacrifices in the trenches of the First World War.
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It was Germany's devastating use of mustard gas in the trenches of the First World War which prompted Britain's research.
With so many lives at risk, including the citizens of those countries, digging the trenches of entrepreneurship out of war puts a sobering reality on valuation.
And it will be a reminder that -- from the trenches of the First World War to the mountains of Afghanistan -- Aussies and Americans have stood together, we have fought together, we have given lives together in every single major conflict of the past hundred years.
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Eduardo had a year in the army, digging trenches in the unlikely event that with war nearing its end the Germans would invade.
During the war, he said he tended the trenches for nearly four weeks.
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But when Spielberg does the story realistically, with scenes of butchery and mud, it seems trivial, even a little daft: the war stops, the armies and the trenches and the hospitals are stilled, so that the boy and the animal can find each other.
Meanwhile commanders make sure the Christmas boxes are ready to take out to the units outside the base, a tradition begun by Queen Mary during World War I to raise the troops' morale in the trenches.
Optimists in both camps still talked about how they would reach out to the other side when it was all over, like the World War I infantrymen who played soccer on Christmas Day before going back to their trenches to try to kill each other again.
In the letters that they wrote home they spoke of the horrors of war and the bravery it summoned -- how they endured the slaughter of the trenches and the chaos of beach landings, the bitter cold of a Korean winter or the endless heat of a Vietnam jungle.
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