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In the oceans, biodiversity is not at war with abundance.
But I was at war with myself, and I dug terrible wounds into my own psyche.
One government biologist, he explained this war on animals like the bear by saying that they no longer had a place in our advancing civilization, and so we were just clearing them out of the way.
I'm excited to be here to speak about vets, because I didn't join the Army because I wanted to go to war.
So the Army then went through this process and they trained me up, and when I say I didn't join the Army because I wanted to go to war, the truth is, I joined in 1996.
I received the scholarship to go overseas and to go study and live overseas, and I was living in England and that was interesting, but at the same time, the same people who I was training with, the same soldiers that I went through all my training with, and we prepared for war, they were now actually heading over to it.
I thought that if you made it back from a conflict zone that somehow you could kind of wipe the sweat off your brow and say, "Whew, I'm glad I dodged that one," without understanding that for so many people, as they come back home, the war keeps going.
Now the third area is the one that I want to focus on the most, and that's the category of existential risks: events like a nuclear war or a global pandemic that could permanently derail civilization or even lead to the extinction of the human race.
The last two centuries brought tremendous technological progress, but they also brought the global risks of nuclear war and the possibility of extreme climate change.
After his death, Octavius joined his general Mark Antony in starting a civil war that tore Rome apart, then stabbed his ally in the back to increase his own power.
As winner of the civil war and commander of the most troops, it was his duty to restore law and order to Rome so that other factions didn’t continue fighting.
It's the only one that can start a war or say "I love you."
He was captured and ended up in a prisoner of war camp, and it was a terrifying time for him, because if it was discovered that he was a Jew, he could have been moved to a concentration camp, where he most likely would not have survived.
And in fact, when the war ended and he was released, most of his friends and family were dead.
He helped out the war orphans.
We see it in its extreme in cases of war, where the out-group isn't merely given less, but dehumanized, as in the Nazi perspective of Jews as vermin or lice, or the American perspective of Japanese as rats.
McCain is a celebrated war hero, and many people would explicitly say he has more of an American story than Obama.
The story, perhaps apocryphal, is that President Lincoln invited her to the White House in the middle of the Civil War and said to her, "So you're the little lady who started this great war."
I was four years old when Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941 by Japan, and overnight, the world was plunged into a world war.
What would be grotesquely abnormal became my normality in the prisoner of war camps.
When the war ended, we were released, and given a one-way ticket to anywhere in the United States.
It was an amazing act, and when the war ended, the 442nd returned to the United States as the most decorated unit of the entire Second World War.
In any war today, most of the casualties are civilians, mainly women and children.
And most definingly, they lead an all-out war on the rights of women.
During the civil war, he and his family were forced to flee to Nigeria.
Every day, all around us, we see the consequences of silence manifest themselves in the form of discrimination, violence, genocide and war.
Usually, they were told that they were going to be exchanged for prisoners of war.
These items have been recovered from numerous mass graves across my homeland, and as we speak, forensics are exhuming bodies from newly discovered mass graves, 20 years after the war.
Most of them were killed either in the early days of the war or towards the end of the hostilities, when U.N. safe zones like Srebrenica fell into the hands of the Serb army.
These objects are used as a forensic tool in visual identification of the victims, but they are also used as very valuable forensic evidence in the ongoing war crimes trials.
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