Our men and women in uniform have made us safer and more secure, and we were eternally grateful to them, but war and suffering and hardship still remain in too many corners of the globe.
WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President at the National Prayer Breakfast
Mr. Patch would surely agree that a major effort to preventing war and human suffering must be to support continued medical research, especially to ameliorate emerging epidemics such as worldwide "Lyme Disease", drug-resistant malaria and tuberculosis, and parasitism.
War, famine, cruelty, disease and suffering will not be eradicated by mips, bits or bytes, even if things improve at the margin.
When most people hear of the Horn of Africa, they tend to think of chillingly negative images of suffering, famine and war.
Japanese ambassador Keiichi Hayashi told those present the stone was a "symbol of human suffering during World War II and the ongoing quest for peace".
During Word War I, many were soldiers suffering from gas gangrene, and gunshot wounds were treated.
After more than 20 years of war, the country is now suffering the worst drought in decades, and hundreds of thousands of people are living in refugee camps.
The course of such a war will bring us greater suffering than it has brought to date, and if we are to fight it as we must we will have less in material things.
Pausing before she passes judgment on the veracity of the clip, Virginia Heffernan of The New York Times wonders why it's animal suffering that goes viral and not footage of the human toll in war.
At war's end this shared suffering would override persisting differences about the meanings of race, citizenship, and nationhood to establish sacrifice and its memorialization as the ground on which North and South would ultimately reunite.
When conflicts cannot be prevented, at least the suffering can be mitigated, and there are now dozens of international aid organisations helping victims in war zones.
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