She was in a very small town in Bavaria and after the war, when things settled down, she became an interpreter for the U.S. Army, ... She met and married my father, who was in the Army and working to help settle displaced persons.

With fire and sword the country round
Was wasted far and wide,
And many a childing mother then,
And new-born infant, died.
But things like that, you know, must be
At every famous victory.

They say it was a shocking sight,
After the field was won,
For many thousand bodies here
Lay rotting in the sun;
But things like that, you know, must be
After a famous victory.

This is the first major turnaround in development assistance since World War II.

Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.

Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes