Sentences with phrase «old soldier»

There are still places where survivors of that struggle gather, like old soldiers at a retreat for veterans, to nurse their wounds and tell war stories.

This time his target was 72 - year - old Soldier Field.

Given that many soldiers on the front lines are in their late teens or early 20s, the researchers wondered whether groups with younger soldiers might benefit from the inclusion of a slightly older soldier in his mid - to late - 20s.

It's been revealed that in the main campaign players will take control of a 19 year old soldier from Texas called Red Daniels who's fighting on the front lines along with his squadmates in the 1st Infantry division.

It comes five years after a 21 - year - old soldier died at Castlemartin when he was shot in the head while relaxing at a safe location just outside the training range.

There are more moderate atheists too, but the radicals like this 20 year old soldier scream rather loudly.

Eleven days before Eamonn McCormick finally died, an 18 - year - old soldier called Keith Bryan from Bristol was shot dead by the IRA while on foot patrol in the Lower Falls area of Belfast.

I have a vision of Falstaff — a tragic, comic and hopelessly flawed figure — and his crew of weary old soldiers preparing for a new battle.

Sooner or later, however, old law reports in print, like old soldiers, really will fade away, while the law reports themselves may live forever.

Dear Abby: I am a 21 - year - old soldier stationed with the U.S. Army in Heidelberg, Germany.

«As a 20 - year - old soldier wrote just a week before he died: «But for this war I and all the others would have passed into oblivion like the countless myriads before us, but we shall live for ever in the results of our efforts.»

While recalling the achievements of the former governor, Gowon described him as a bold soldier who played his part well during the civil war, adding that he (Ogbemudia) «had just moved to a spiritual barracks,» as «old soldiers never die».

The two were sentenced along with three other accomplices which included a supervisor of the shop Gilbert Osabutey and two private security men Michael Edor Ahiataku aka Old soldier, and Frederick Sedro Kwame for conspiracy.

Old soldiers Jack Straw, Alastair Darling and Alan Johnson sheathed their swords.

Some personalities honored by the institution include Joyce Medley (Tv3), Fiifi Banson (Kassakpa fm), Agyemang Prempeh (Rainbow radio), Dj Old soldier (Peace fm), Kwame Sefa Kai (peace fm), Dj Advicer (Happy fm), Root Eye (3fm) and a host of others.

and the upcoming Han Solo origin story) as Bartle, a 21 - year - old soldier sent to fight insurgents in Iraq.

Metal Gear Solid 4 focuses on Solid Snake as a tired, old soldier near the end of his life.

Screenwriter Jean - Christophe Castelli adapted novelist Ben Fountain's 2012 bestseller about Billy Lynn, a 19 - year - old soldier thrust into the limelight after a viral video shows him taking out some Iraqi fighters while trying to save his commander.

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk follows Billy Lynn (Joe Alwyn), a 19 - year - old soldier who has returned from Iraq to a hero's welcome.

It's about weary old soldiers becoming tired of killing and being inspired by the stoic suffering of their prisoners to become better men themselves.

The film takes a men - on - a-mission scenario (old soldiers Marvin, Lancaster and Robert Ryan head south of the border to rescue kidnap victim Cardinale) and infuses it with star - driven banter, intermittent action highlights, and much musing on the transient nature of idealism by hardened pros.

, I thought Major Pettigrew was a brave old soldier in his relationship with Mrs. Ali and his community.

The mechanics, the Cold War nostalgia and even the fist fight between two old soldiers so reminiscent of Once Upon a Time in the West were all done and fulfilled here.

On Independence Day, a shark even attacked a 32 - year - old soldier from the US Marine Corps.

Private Adam Winfield was a 21 - year - old soldier in Afghanistan when he attempted, with the help of his father, to alert the military to his unit's heinous war crimes: killing Afghans for sport.

Wherever one falls on the ultimate question of whether mercy killing a dying enemy in theatre constitutes murder, even those most disturbed by the alleged actions of Capt. Semrau find themselves nauseated by the thought that this 36 year old soldier could spend a minimum of ten years in a federal penitentiary awaiting his earliest parole eligibility while his two daughters grow up without him.

So we bid farewell to Henry — not a military officer, but in his way very much the old soldier, as well as a scholar, a visionary, and a Christian gentleman.

The old soldier has lived those battles and, having lived them, they have an impact on the present self.

The old soldier decides that the meaning of the past is that he should hope for the return of the Emperor rather than join the present government.

Sartre points out that the old soldier chose this meaning for the past, and that he could have chosen to give a different meaning to the past and therefore making a radical break with it.

He had dealt with various areas such as agriculture, old soldiers, public health, war treaties, capitalism, capital punishment, coinage, communism, land, old age pensions, divorce, artificial insemination, slaughter houses, reformation of criminals, tramps money, over population and others.

A Philadelphia - based management company credited with restoring the financial health of the old Soldier Field is expected to win the contract to oversee operations when the new $ 632 million arena opens later this year, Chicago Park District officials said Monday.

As for beer sales, the spread - out, flat design of the old Soldier Field did not allow vendors to navigate the aisles and sell beer and other food.

NPP branch secretary in Eshiem, Mr Daniel Appiah, popularly called Old Soldier, who's also the owner of the building said, looking at what the NDC Parliamentary Candidate for the area, Sam Kwesi Fletcher is doing for the constituents there's no way the sinking NPP candidate (Lawyer Abban) can win the seat.

It is IBB's latest, to shoo President Buhari from a legitimate second term; even as the old soldier from Minna hides behind a finger, of newfound love for the «youth».

But our list contains those who lobby for cancer charities and old soldiers.

As with all good conference speeches Mr Cameron inserts a personal story about an 18 - year - old soldier he met.

, who appointed the late elder statesman as a military governor in 1967 before the 1975 coup, lamented that the death of Ogbemudia had depleted the rank of «old soldiers».

UPPER WEST SIDE — With the 112 - year - old Soldiers» and Sailor's Monument looming in the background and hundreds of uniformed military members and civilians before him, Mayor Bill de Blasio spoke of honoring the dead and fighting for better care of veterans during a Memorial Day service.

He's an old soldier in a world that's nothing but battlefield, an exile with no home to go back to.

Curmudgeonly and vicious, it's a lighter - than - air farce with a black heart that feels suspiciously like the mad rantings of an old soldier describing his vision of a bucolic Valhalla to which he one day hopes to return.

Adapted by Slumdog Millionaire writer Simon Beaufoy from Ben Fountain's novel, Billy Lynn follows the titular 19 - year - old soldier (Alwyn), who along with his squad has survived a tough battle in Iraq that made headlines and turned the troops into instant celebrities.

The boy's name was Peter Augustus Duchene, and the coin that he held did not belong to him but was instead the property of his guardian, an old soldier named Vilna lutz, who had sent the boy to the market for fish and bread.

After almost a decade, most of the old soldiers thought the claims would never be paid, and were selling them for 10 cents on the dollar.

He is a cadaverous sentry with a shaved pate under an old soldier's cap, selling pencils from a canister strung about his neck.

His grandfather was his first experience with war wounds, and Adam grew to love him, and soon after the old soldier died, he joined the army and became a great soldier and now has his own list of places he has been.

Now, as she walks the rows of the dead, an old soldier appears.