Most of the World War II veterans are in their 80s now, and many are dying. Their families are putting some of their possessions up for bid on eBay.


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Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
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The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistak...
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We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it...
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And this was your friend?" Cordelia raised her eyebrows. "Seems to me the only difference between yo...
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Mia Maz glanced aside in concern at his muffled snort. "Are you all right?"
"Yes. Sorry," he wh...
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Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.
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It’s true that if your religion failed to deliver a miracle, that a human sacrifice would certainl...
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Because war is a competition involving life and death, and in which national security and vital inte...
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(Watching her) was a little like watching water lilies; rather more like smelling a dinner he was no...
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But though you’d never starve your body to wasting and still expect to go on, you starve your hear...
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It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across thei...
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He puts his money where his mouth is. I'm very impressed with his knowledge and training and care fo...
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He's one of those guys, you talk to him a few minutes and you like him. He has a good reputation amo...
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When we have somebody who says, 'I want to help you and not charge you,' that gives me a warm and fu...
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What we can afford least is to define the problem of future war as we would like it to be and, by do...
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It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of...
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When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something usele...
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My personal experience in Ninawa Province has been that, at the most fundamental level, people don&#...
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I know what the value [of storytelling] is to me -- varied and huge, giving me everything from delig...
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Are you sure this isn't instant boots?" asked Cordelia sadly, for in color, taste, and smell they cl...
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He bit his fingernails. He bit his toenails. He pulled tiny green threads from his shirt and tried f...
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As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with gro...
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Sorry, Bill. I just have this awful vision of being p-peeled like an onion, looking for the seeds."<...
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In my experience, milady, we can never get back to exactly where we started, no matter how hard we t...
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Apologizing to me again, thought Miles miserably. For me. He keeps telling me I'm all right—and th...
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People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and...
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A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breasts and cry�...
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Now, there's this about cynicism, Sergeant. It's the universe's most supine moral position. Real com...
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This is important! But you have to stay absolutely cool. I may be completely off-base, and panicking...
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Welcome to Barrayar, son. Here you go: have a world of wealth and poverty, wrenching change and root...
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Ekaterin glanced back over her shoulder. “He didn’t look very well this morning, Pym. You really...
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You want to be good. All right, I can understand that. But you have to be careful who you let define...
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Of course, compared to Serg, Tien wasn’t much worse than foolish and venal. But it was hard to wat...
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Lately, I have come to believe that the principal difference between heaven and hell is the company ...
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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.... The fricti...
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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you’ll be so close as to be living inside each other’s...
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You? I know you! You trust beyond reason."
She met his eyes steadily. "Yes. It's how I get resu...
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Pym looked at the bugs, glanced at the sleeve of his proud uniform, stared again at the deadly parod...
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everyone has their folding-point, Miles. Their mortal vulnerability. Some just keep it in a nonstand...
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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about
yourself... Guard ...
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How had he rehearsed this vitally-important, utterly-critical meeting, again? "Mother, Father, let m...
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Gardens were meant to be seen, smelled, walked through, grubbed in. A hundred objective measurements...
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For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair.

The m...
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I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.
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Pym!" The Countess spotted a new victim, and her voice went a little dangerous. "I seconded you to l...
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