Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.

Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not.