(Thinking while being interrogated by the Germans) You big shots think you can decide on my life, but I have news for you: you can't touch a hair on my head without the will of God my Father, because He is on my side.
Diet EmanTags: wwii god prison holocaust jesus-christ germany dutch righteous
The only reason for this treatment was that they were Jews.
Muriel Knox DohertyTags: wwii holocaust jews belsen
And a ton came down on a coloured road,
And a ton came down on a gaol,
And a ton came down on a freckled girl,
And a ton on the black canal,
And a ton came down on a hospital,
And a ton on a manuscript,
And a ton shot up through the dome of a church,
And a ton roared down to the crypt.
And a ton danced over the Thames and filled
A thousand panes with stars,
And the splinters leapt on the Surrey shore
To the tune of a thousand scars.
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Finally, I wish to remember the millions of Allied servicemen and prisoners of war who lived the story of the Second World War. Many of these men never came home; many others returned bearing emotional and physical scars that would stay with them for the rest of their lives. I come away from this book with the deepest appreciation for what these men endured, and what they scarified, for the good of humanity. It is to them that this book {Unbroken} is dedicated,
Laura HillenbrandTags: wwii world-war-ii soldiers veterans world-war-2
You have amazing gifts. Don't squander them. Don't give them out meaninglessly, don't abuse them, don't take them for granted. You are the weapon you carry with you till the day you die.
-Tatiana and Alexander
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Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where there's still life, there's still hope. What happens is up to God.
Louis ZamperiniThe one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.
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It was now December 7, 1941; the date that Franklin D. Roosevelt was destined to declare would live in infamy.
Randall WallaceTags: history wwii america world-war-ii ww2 fdr pearl-harbor franklin-d-roosevelt
Simon shook his head. ‘The Nazis in Germany…the Japanese here in Shanghai…Treating people as less than human because of the shape of their faces or the sound of their names. Sometimes it feels like the whole damn world is unraveling.
Daniel KallaIntegrating the beauty of seasonal change into the residence was a concept that remains true even today even in the more cramped, inner city machiya.
Judith ClancyTags: history wwii food japan architecture restaurants kyoto machiya
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