#world war ii

We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay. ↗

— Doc Hastings

#fully #ii #never #our #our world

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#atomic bomb #bomb #cold #cold war #continue

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#civil war #forward #history #ii #non

Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#carefully #century #dalton #destroyed #during

February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#coast #during #exclusion #executive #february

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy. ↗

— Ramsey Clark

#crime #foreign #foreign policy #greatest #ii

The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general. ↗

— George Crumb

#after #electronically #enormous #general #had

My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#grandmother #her #ii #life #me

My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform. ↗

— Eric Liu

#air force #chinese #during #force #general

I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way. ↗

— George McGovern

#did #flamboyant #frequently #i #ii