It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore.
"You know very well this is a pretext of a political war between President Basescu and me, a war each of us leads with their own weapons, " he said.
One of the stories about war that has always haunted me is that of World War I soldiers fighting and dying as the clock ticked down to the war's end.
One retired General, Jim Dubik, who helped mastermind the surge in Iraq and is now a senior fellow at the Institute for the Study of War, told me that for eight years America adopted the wrong strategy, counter-terrorism, which allowed the Taliban to grow.
Another time a descendant of a high ranking Revolutionary War general sent me their family treasure, also a letter from General Washington, only to find out that someone a century earlier had copied the original onto laid paper, the very kind of paper that Washington had used (shown below).
Books tell me that war is an occasion for solidarity and a great national rising above.
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Watching from the balcony, I knew then, for certain, that the war had forever changed me.
After the war, he told me, President Harry Truman asked him if people were saying unpleasant things to him because of the bomb.
Although I hope to follow in my teacher's footsteps, my path for now is blocked by the uncertainty of living far from home, by a war that has driven me here, by tuition costs in Jordan that are prohibitively expensive.
"For me the war is still present - it's present in all the families that do not know the truth about what has happened, " says Father Cortina, who spent much of the war as a parish priest in one of the most conflict-ridden areas of the country.
The conflict in Iraq "didn't strike me as a war that was affecting people in my life, " Bowers-Defino said.
What has always fascinated me about World War I was the fundamental change that this titanic futility worked in the way English-speaking people thought.
And an opponent who calls me ending the war in Iraq "tragic, " or suggests that somehow we should stay longer in Afghanistan has a very different world view, different perspective.
After the war, they tried to compromise me, to destroy my reputation.
Mr. Powell's war-hawk foes seemed to me both bullying and unrealistic.
It was not smart for me to oppose the war at the start of this war, but I did so because it was the right thing to do.
"It reminds me so much of the war on drugs, " said Levins, a former district attorney in New York.
That is the part of war that has made an impression on me, as isolated from it as I am.
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During the polarizing Vietnam War, you and your brothers first taught me how to fire a rifle.
He, in turn, introduces me to Brandon, an Iraq war veteran who is maybe 6-foot-6 and 230 pounds.
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The clattering sound made me think of the old TV war series, MASH.
"People around the world should do all they can to stop those instigating war in my country, " Josephine told me.
This fight reminds me of an earlier, similar war-the war on crime.
The pic shows a 3-year-old boy, the same age as my own son, waving to me from in front of his war-torn house.
"You cannot bring peace by fighting - war is not the answer, " he told me.
Consider just two examples: the early American "Dont Tread on Me" flag and WWII Office of War Information posters.
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