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WARS in our century have taken about a hundred million lives. The pain, sorrow, and anguish this has caused is incalculable. How have survivors, both military and civilian, been able to cope? What hope is there for a world without war, a world that will never again experience such trauma?

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Survivors from the assault on Eniwetok Island in the Marshalls, 1944

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Official U.S. Coast Guard Photo