The bloody assault on the beaches of Normandy would change the course of the war, allowing the Allies to liberate occupied France and advance into Germany, as Soviet troops advanced against the Germans from the East.

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With the North Atlantic Treaty Organization facing divisions over the war in Afghanistan and advanced economies struggling for a united approach on climate change, the Secretary of State urged alliance states to again summon the resolve and idealism that won the Cold War.

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The origin of the road's regal name is said to stem back to a league of kings who advanced this way to wage war with the wicked Cities of the Plains -- the Old Testament cities of Sodom and Gomorrah -- which are thought to have lain along the Dead Sea.

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The Bush administration certainly wanted to go to war, and it advanced eradication of weapons of mass destruction as the main reason.

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Fort Bragg's Womack Army Medical Center, he points out, with its Warrior Transition Battalion, for those injured in war, and an advanced traumatic brain injury center, is just 5 miles away.

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