“War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.”– Ambrose Bierce Related Quotes “We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.”– Condoleezza Rice “I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.”– Ben Barnes “My youth passed at the time of the country’s reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.”– Lech Walesa