Sentences with phrase «old soldiers at»

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.

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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.

A Soldier transforms 7 - year - old Kayiah into a camouflaged Army Ranger at the 6th Ranger Training Battalion's annual open house on Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., May 12, 2012.

Nevertheless the number of Catholic soldiers at the front — including the first VC of the war, Lt Maurice Dease of the Royal Fusiliers (an old boy of Stonyhurst)-- clearly showed that it was possible to be a British subject and a good Catholic at the same time.

When the first contingent arrived at Letchworth Garden City in Hertfordshire, they seemed dazed for they had been «hiding for a fortnight or more behind hedges and in woods»; «one old woman had been driven out of her bed by the German soldiers, and actually arrived in London in her night clothes.»

Mostly they came, I think, because, he loved them and could tell them so, yes, even those vast, milling throngs; there was a touch, a sense, a spirit moving in, across, among those mobs of eager people, told them here at last they had a man who was concerned not for himself, who was not out to get himself elected, but who cared for every single one of them, and tottering old dames, lepers, whores, soldiers, robbers; I've seen them all transformed by seeing him.

Indeed, he creates a virtual phantasmagoria of suffering from actual instances of human barbarity that he has read about in Russian newspapers: Turkish soldiers cutting babies from their mother's wombs and throwing them in the air in order to impale them on their bayonets; enlightened parents stuffing their five - year - old daughter's mouth with excrement and locking her in a freezing privy all night for having wet the bed, while they themselves sleep soundly; Genevan Christians teaching a naive peasant to bless the good God even as the poor dolt is beheaded for thefts and murders that his ostensibly Christian society caused him to commit; a Russian general, offended at an eight - year - old boy for accidentally hurting the paw of the officer's dog, inciting his wolfhounds to tear the child to pieces; a lady and gentleman flogging their eight - year - old daughter with a birch - rod until she collapses while crying for mercy, «Papa, papa, dear papa.»

Having a soldier surprise his family at a sporting event will never get old.

It looks like the next player to vacate his position at Old Trafford will be Rafael Da Silva; a marauding and brave soldier from the hot - blooded nation of Brazil.

Heck, I drove like a little old lady when I had the the chance to drive a go - kart around the parking lot at Soldier field.

Jones and his current partners in C3, 40 - year - old Charles Attal and 36 - year - old Charlie Walker, also have forged contracts with the Congress Theatre to book shows at the 4,200 - seat theater and with the Philadelphia - based facility management firm SMG and the Chicago Park District to bring events to Soldier Field.

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.

A 19 - year - old man has been arrested in connection with the murder of two British soldiers at a barracks in Northern Ireland last month.

«There's soldiers who moved from down south to the north and then when they got older they decided and their supporters decided to purchase land at the cemetery,» said Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul Feiner.

Old Etonian soldier says he was «useless at exams» but wins on the Xbox

However, things don't quite go as planned, and though they do make it to a military installation at which Rosalie initially agrees to wait for the next train back to civilization, instead Blocker finds himself not only continuing to look after her, but adding an old friend to the mix in the form of a disgraced soldier heading for the gallows named Sgt. Charles Willis (Ben Foster).

At its worst, Toy Soldiers is just an action variation on the old Rooney - Garland musicals - you know, let's - get - a-buncha-kids-together-and-put-on-a-counterinsurgency.

A soldier aims a handgun at the forehead of a 3 - year - old girl, but a teen girl tackles him and they scuffle, the man tells the girl later that she will wish he had killed her as soldiers enter with drawn rifles and capture the would - be shooter forcing him to his knees; he taunts his captor, who aims a gun at his forehead as the camera pans away and we hear a loud shot off screen.

Sebastian Stan aka Bucky is an old buddy of Captain America; brainwashed into being a killing - machine Winter Soldier, he can «go off» at any time.

In addition to bringing back some old toys (Tyrese Gibson, Josh Duhamel, and John Turturro's Simmons, now a Transformers» conspiracy theorist), Bay also takes some toys away from the smarter kids, like Frances McDormand (as head of the toy soldiers), John Malkovich (as the CEO of the company that Sam works at, briefly) and Ken Jeong.

Lymelife (R for profanity, sexuality, violence and drug use) Coming - of - age drama set during an outbreak of Lyme disease in the late Seventies in a Connecticut town where an innocent 15 year - old's (Rory Culkin) life is turned upside - down when he falls in love with the girl next - door (Emma Roberts) at the same time his parents (Alec Baldwin and Jill Hennessy) separate and his soldier brother (Kieran Culkin) receives orders to ship out overseas.

With: Tonya - Geraldine Chaplin Lara - Julie Christie Pasha / Streinikoff - Tom Courtenay Yevgraf - Alec Guinness Anna - Siobhan McKenna Alexander - Ralph Richardson Yuri Zhivago - Omar Sharif Komarovsky - Rod Steiger Girl - Rita Tushingham Sasha - Jeffrey Rockland Yuri at age 8 - Tarek Sharif Boishevik - Bernard Kay Kostoyed - Klaus Kinski Liberius - Gerard Tichy Razin - Noel Willman Medical professor - Geoffrey Keen Amelia - Adrienne Corri Petya - Jack MacGowran Dam engineer - Mark Eden Old soldier - Erik Chitty Beef - faced colonel - Roger Maxwell Delegate - Wolf Frees Female janitor - Gwen Nelson Katya - Lucy Westmore Train jumper - Lili Murati Political officer - Peter Madden

Ahead of its premiere at Horror Channel FrightFest next month, a new UK trailer has been released for the upcoming alien invasion sci - fi thriller sequel Beyond Skyline; check it out here... Los Angeles Detective Mark Corley (Frank Grillo, Captain America: The Winter Soldier) thought bailing out his eighteen - year - old son, Trent (Jonny Weston, Taken 3), was -LSB-...]

This collection of four guided reading activities, aimed at 10 to 14 year olds, tests children's comprehension, retrieval, inference and deduction skills through some intriguing stories from the soldiers at war.

That model is basically the only real competitor the X6 has right now; the old Acura ZDX mercifully got the ax for the 2014 model year, leaving the X6 to soldier on as a unique offering in the industry — at least until the GLE Coupe gets here.

Maybe they just did them for no reason at all or because of stupidity or selfishness or cowardice or anger or for reasons that made no rational sense - because the clouds happened to be a particularly gloomy shade of gray that day, because the barking of an old dog chained to a sycamore tree just happened to sound exactly like the crunch of soldiers» boots on gravel or the hum of bees like an engine in the head driving you mad.

Frieda Mintz, a Jewish seventeen - year - old bundle wrapper at Jordan Marsh in Boston, spends one impulsive night with an infected soldier.

In a world at war, one girl's faith makes her a soldier... Seventeen - year - old Lennox Winters is no stranger to loss.

Mrs. Janssen is waiting at the door for me, which makes me irritated because if you were a German soldier assigned to look for suspicious things, what would you think of an old woman waiting for a strange girl on a bicycle?

NEW YORK — A group of outstanding animals and people — including a cat who provided support for a soldier on the front lines of the War in Afghanistan and a 6 - year - old who left behind a legacy of kindness to animals — will be honored at this year's ASPCA ® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ®) Humane Awards Luncheon in New York City.

And through the concrete madness of honking horns and beep - beep - beeps, the shuttlecock, the raggedy dog, the yellow - scarved soldiers in green, the docking ships of night and the smog of modernity; silently cruised the noble old cyclo drivers in shorts and rag shirts, bobbing on forever over their chariots — these three - wheeled rickshaws with a large passenger seat at the front, like a bicycle attached to a wheelchair — visions of serenity and melancholy calm.

Each War Story is unique and has a different look at a section of World War I. You'll join a group of British soldiers as they power their way through using a massive tank with the nickname of Old Bess.

Based on a declassified report on US special forces» activity at a base in Gardez, Afghanistan, a 2014 series of paintings explores the story of Jamal Nasser, an 18 - year - old Afghan soldier who died in US military custody.

As the nation was ravaged by military conflicts and political unrest, he was forced into being a child soldier at 14 years old, but left a few years later after his mother helped him escape.

I'm a wife to an active duty Army soldier and stay - at - home mom to a 6 year old girl and 1 year old boy.

9/11/2001 still directly affects my day to day life as the wife of a soldier (I wrote about it in my latest post-I invite you to share your story as well) but it is also the 1st birthday of my niece who died in late December at 3 months old last year.