But the episode has drawn attention to the ways in which the United States, omnipotent though it may superficially seem in the post-cold-war age, is sometimes in fact quite weak.
He went to war at age 20 and was taken prison for almost a year.
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The result, the author contends, was the post-war golden age of prosperity and social harmony.
It is a charge that resonates beyond romantics who recall the post-war golden age of cabinet government when Whitehall was a collection of ministerial baronies, each run by a big beast and overseen by a prime minister who was merely primus inter pares.
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.
For years I assumed my musical obsession with nuclear war was simply the product of coming of age under Reagan, the Cold War, and the television movie The Day After.
It is true that in recent decades, the rate of income growth has been much slower even in good times than in the Golden Age following World War II.
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After its harsh birth in Korea and its stormy Vietnamese adolescence, America's fully-integrated army finally came of age in the Gulf war, the climax of Ms Buckley's story.
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Having come of age just as the Vietnam war was winding down, I felt a twinge of excitement.
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Until the first world war, and an encounter at the age of 38 with a soldier on a beach near Alexandria, he was painfully virginal.
"Because of their age, a lot of war memorials are beginning to fade and we want to make sure that the information on them is preserved for posterity, " said Mr Rees.
Just as World War II defined the beginning of the modern age, the sinking of the Titanic really marked the end of the 19th Century.
I'm the parent of a 20-year-old -- will I be telling my grandson someday not to worry, that the war should be over before he hits draft age?
However, Benjamin Wittes, a senior fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution and author of Law and the Long War: The Future of Justice in the Age of Terror, has some reservations.
Among older age groups, higher shares of Gulf War-era veterans than nonveterans were employed.
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Appeals judges also rejected Marshall's argument that he should be spared prison because of his age, illness and service as a World War II veteran and U.S. ambassador.
Since life expectancy has leapt by nearly 30 years since the war, to 82 on average, then the minimum age for pensions should be raised swiftly at least to 67 and preferably to 70.
He points out that both the child allowance and age related benefits were introduced before the Second World War.
The legal age for buying cigarettes was set prior to World War II, long before the health threats posed by tobacco were recognised.
The post-war "baby-boom" generation is now reaching reproductive age.
In 1202, around the age of twenty-one, he himself went to war, in a battle between Assisi and Perugia.
In every age from the caves right on through the second World War, it worked for men to take big risks, have short attention spans and be driven by ego.
The two men do have a remarkable amount in common from age (Dole was 72 when he ran) to war wounds, from a lengthy Senate career to a dark sense of humour.
On this Memorial Day, it is important to remember that much of the technological revolution that we celebrate today was the product of war--and that most of the great inventions of the electronics age were originally designed to destroy property and kill human beings.
"From a very young age he had a very tough upbringing, growing up in a war ravaged country and had to work extremely hard to provide for the family, " said Ms Thiyagarajah.
Remarkably enough, it has been argued by senior U.S. government officials, among others, that the Gulf war actually demonstrated once and for all the irrelevance of strategic depth in the age of ballistic missiles.
And yes it is about the war in Iraq and how we work with the rest of the world in this age of terror.
Richard came of an age looking up to the men who had helped shape the post-war world -- Dean Acheson, Averill Harriman, Clark Clifford, Dean Rusk.
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