Two days earlier, French President Nicolas Sarkozy was in Germany as thousands of people remembered a different war the Cold War.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

a war that was costing the government three million dollars a day and the lives of the nation's young men.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

During World War Two, Eugene McCarthy worked as a technical aide for a military intelligence office of the War Department.

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My father was a veteran of the Korean War, and it really represents the future and the past and present."

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Audrey Hepburn often said her loyalty to UNICEF was the result of her experiences as a child during World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

They showed the faces of people in a land that still wore the mask of defeat in America's Civil War.

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But in the late sixties he went to report on the war to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam.

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The Democratic Party chose for its presidential candidate a hero of the Civil War -- General Winfield Scott Hancock of Pennsylvania.

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The end of his first one reads like poetry as he appeals for unity in a country under threat of civil war.

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At the close of the Civil War I found myself without a home, without money and without work.

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Throughout most of the eighteen fifties, war was a continual threat between the North and the South over the issue of slavery.

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But rape has been used as a weapon of war in the Balkans, Burma and Sri Lanka.

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Now,as in those far-off Civil War days, getting information by the grapevine remains something of a game.

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And it nominated a hero of the Spanish-American War, New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt, as vice president.

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