Our Armed Forces are now in the field against the enemy, in Afghanistan and Iraq . Last week, 13 of our countrymen in arms were killed.

在阿富汗和伊拉克的沙场上，我军正与敌军鏖战，上一周，我们又有13名军人被杀害。

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We have asked for the support of the United Nations on various levels: first of all, on the military level, because a strong army and strong armed forces could defend Lebanon against hostility of the enemy.

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They include members of all three armed forces along with members of the Merchant Navy killed as a result of enemy action and air raid wardens in uniform.

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And, having unexpectedly encountered the woman in her getup, I found myself wondering what, six and seven decades ago, they would have made of it: what the 16 million Americans who served in the armed forces during World War II, who were sent across the ocean to defeat a brutal enemy, would have thought about this scene.

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