World War I
- Florence Green (February 19, 1901-February 4, 2012) — Served as waitress in the Women's Royal Air Force.
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“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant? We should live in all the ages of the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages. History, Poetry, Mythology!—I know of no reading of another’s experience so startling and informing as this would be.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The war was a mirror; it reflected man’s every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.”
—George Grosz (1893–1959)