Australia has been a staunch ally of the United States, fighting side by side with the U.S. in World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the first Gulf War, and Howard argued that Australians should always remember that no nation is more important to our long-term security than that of the United States.

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He told an audience of veterans and military workers in Pennsylvania that those who question the original rationale for the war do not remember their history, and they're sending the wrong message to troops and the enemy.

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Again, history tugs at consciences: plenty of Spaniards still remember the pain of war and exile.

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Next year marks 100 years since the outbreak of World War I and events are being held across the world to remember those who died.

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Bob Le Sueur helped escaping Russian prisoners of war and will be at the Jersey Slave Workers Memorial to remember the thousands of people forced to work for the Nazis during World War II.

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"What you have is a war and a history that the younger Iranians do not know about or remember, so they know less about him and see him as the reformer he says that he is, " Hunter said.

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Before starting yet another war in the Middle East, it would be nice if we could try and remember the success of the strategy of containment, one of the most competently executed grand strategies in history.

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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.

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