Mrs. Hall found particular comfort in the Vietnam veterans, with their stories of struggle, of war and of its aftermath.
In the Quran, the word is a sort of homonym with two distinct connotations the "greater jihad" which is a personal struggle of a soul in crisis, and the "lesser jihad," which is the worldly struggle of war against an oppressor.
His analogy last week between the war in Iraq and the epic struggles of World War II, the Korean War and, especially, the Vietnam War was ridiculed by some as revisionist or simply inaccurate.
We are the heirs, according to the former New Republic editor Peter Beinart, of the anti-totalitarian struggles of World War II and the cold war, and our battle against terrorism is the defining cause of the age.
Senator Byrd's life -- like most of ours -- has been the struggle of warring impulses, a twining of darkness and light.
I have always been fascinated with the Normandy invasion, because both of my parents, who were born and raised in Europe, were children amidst the struggles of World War II.
There's no question that life is stressful, but, for most of us lucky enough to be reading here, our stresses are not the life-and-death struggles of urban war zones and developing world slums.
And yet compared to, say, the Manichean struggles of Star Wars, with its rigid, understandable binary of Good and Evil, Adams's vision of the Galaxy is both more bewildering and more humane.
Politically, Mr. Bush seemed to have won the decisive struggle of the war.
While he still predicts victory, he appears to be preparing the country for a struggle of cold war proportions.
