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As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.
The stories from World War I are worse than anything I have ever read.
I was brought in touch with developing post World War I ideas in Europe.
In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.
My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.
We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.
My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.
I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
We experienced similar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.
My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.
The one thing that I'm most proud of, during the Second World War, I worked on airplanes in a defense plant.
World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.
Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I.
In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until 1939.
I'm a bit embarrassed about how little I know about the First World War. I didn't even know that tanks were used in it.
My grandmother was German. She was an immigrant, and my great grandfather fought in World War I and was stationed in France.
Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the means to wreak destruction.
World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.
America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpassed it after the chaos of World War II.
The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.
I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I.
It's essentially taught in high school and college survey courses as an item on a timeline: 'The Lusitania was sunk; the U.S. gets into World War I'.
Speaking as somebody who is half English and half Hungarian, World War I still seems to me a familiar and seismic event, as if it had only just ended.
In my view, Germany could and should have made reparations for its aggression in World War I - but was the risk of renewed war worth forcing it to do so?
I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.
I went to the University of Minnesota, and I met this amazing artist named Cameron Boothe there who was in World War I, who studied with Hans Hoffman in Munich.
I was born in Russia in 1901 of Jewish parents and came to the United States in 1922 to join my father, who left Russia for the United States before World War I.
After World War I, while France and other Allies were building military defenses modeled on trench warfare, German commanders were shaping a nimble fighting force.
When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.
John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden.
What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad health and died because of chemical exposure in World War I.
On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed.
I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me.
After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come to the city at the beginning of World War I when they were still very young.
The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry charges on western outposts.
In the years after World War I, blacks began to migrate to the North and its imagined freedoms in great numbers - 'Russian' came to mean a black who had rushed from the South.
My great-great-uncle Joseph Lorenz was a Private 1C in the U.S. Army. He was a member of the American Expeditionary Force, Rainbow Division, and died fighting in World War I in France.
Regional interest rate differentials persisted until around the time of World War I and helped shape the attitudes of Americans living in western areas toward the nation's financial system.
One could reasonably argue that the Turkish pogrom against the Armenians during World War I qualifies as a crime against humanity, as does the United States' ethnic cleansing of Native Americans.
When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had at last won the Crusades and driven the pagans out of the Holy Land.
My father was an athlete, a great athlete, fought in the Marines in World War I. He was all sports and activity. My mother was all academics. I still have the complete works of Shakespeare that she had.
The Anarchists set off World War I with a gunshot in Sarajevo - but they faded away. It wasn't that the police drove them out of business. The ideology had nowhere to go except into permanent negativity.
World War I was the deadliest conflict the world had ever known. Veterans Day originated from the American people recognizing that a heavy debt of gratitude was due to the veterans of that brutal conflict.
During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, but after World War I it became an independent national entity.
After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.
It would have been amazing to have been a student at Oxford during that golden moment in the 1910s, rubbing elbows with the likes of Aldous Huxley and T.E. Lawrence, before World War I shattered everything forever.
There are few historians who would challenge the fact that the funding of World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War was accomplished by the Mandrake Mechanism through the Federal Reserve System.