Sentences with phrase «war wounds remain»

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The proposed rise in the Pentagon budget to $ 603 billion comes as the United States has wound down major wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and remains the world's strongest military power.

The fact remains, however, that the Vichy leaders have enforced anti-Semitic laws in a more and more strict and iniquitous fashion, depriving French Jews of every governmental and cultural position, imposing upon them all kinds of restrictions with regard to liberal and commercial professions, mercilessly striking many of them who were wounded for their country during the present war, and hypocritically trying to hide a bad conscience under a pseudonational pathos in which religious and racial considerations are shamefully mixed.

Next to the church, the school of Sant Felip Neri still stands, and etched into the side of the building remain bomb wounds that fell from the sky in January, 1938 during the Spanish Civil War.

As an individual, he was emotionally scarred by his experiences during the First World War, when he was seriously wounded, and he remained a pessimistic person with a restless curiosity in the destiny of Man and the nature of the Universe.