Amid the rubble and confusion of war, the stench of the dead and wails of the living, war offers a terrible clarity.
On Memorial Day we are all small town America, honoring the sacrifices of our war dead and wounded while celebrating the simple freedoms of the first long hot summer weekend.
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At Belfast City Hall, the governor of the Apprentice Boys, Alistair Simpson, laid a wreath at the cenotaph in memory of the war dead.
But also pain and bewilderment at the confusions of war itself, the shocking photographs of the innocent dead, the media experts with their daily questioning of how things are being run.
One example of his outreach work was persuading a British radical who had unceremoniously set fire to a large paper poppy, the British symbol of remembrance for their war dead, to see the error of his ways.
The first minister will visit the graves of the Commonwealth war dead in Liveramentu Cemetery, the main cemetery in Colombo.
The bell of the destroyer HMS Verdun, which served in WWI, was rung twice in honour of the war dead.
Meanwhile, Secretary of State John Reid has welcomed "changing nationalist attitudes" to remembering the dead of the first World War.
The Queen led the nation's tributes to the war dead at the annual service of remembrance in London.
And how he gets to his hatred of war redeems the worst excesses and dead ends in his work.
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The grave of Mr Godwin's elder sister, shot dead in the independence war, becomes a slum-dwellers' toilet.
The War Graves Commission has proposed that the screen wall memorial, which contains the names of 296 dead soldiers, be removed and a new one erected in a different part of the cemetery.
Mr Sarkozy said there would be a national day of remembrance for France's war dead in the coming days as he marked Mr Ponticelli's death.
July has been the deadliest month of the war in Afghanistan for international troops, with 67 dead so far this month.
And so religious volunteers, like al-Sudani, who regard a respectful burial of these victims of war as a crucial calling, have come forth to give the dead a proper resting place.
The former U.S. colony has declined to pursue criminal charges related to the ensuing 14-year conflict, which left 250, 000 people dead and nearly the entire political class accused of war crimes.
Within months, Nigeria was engulfed in independent Africa's first humanitarian catastrophe: a war for the independence of Mr. Achebe's Igbo homeland that left one million people dead, most of them children who starved.
Rather than risk a frontal assault from the sea, he borrowed 23 native canoes, long sleek war vessels called pirogues, and crept up the coast towards the unsuspecting town in the dead of night in 1668.
O'Brien's play is a story of war and war reporting that was inspired by the experiences of Paul Watson, who won a Pulitzer for a 1993 photo of a dead U.S. Army Ranger dragged through the streets of Somalia's capital.
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