And all of their parents would have either fought or taken shelter at home from air raids.
"I knew they would either make me fight or take me to prison.
"You either fought or they would kill you," Beah told the students, adding that he witnessed the killings of other boys who were unwilling or slow to take up arms.
Victory in either fight, it seems, would most likely serve only to lengthen and complicate the fight.
Mr. Abbott is appealing both rulings, and it wouldn't be fair to say either fight is over.
Since the Sept. 11 attacks, the United States and Israel have drawn ever closer, but they have continued, quietly, to differ over a basic question: whether treating the two conflicts as one and the same would help or hinder in resolving either fight.
Before I divulge, please bare in mind that, like most little girls, I grew up hearing stories about princes on horseback taking princesses off into the sunset, and watching Disney movies where men would either break into sporadic song or fight a giant octopus for your affections.
During the events leading up to World War I, either Germany would fight for its and Europe's cultural dignity, or Europe would cease to exist.
He said he would fight either Vernon Forrest, the International Boxing Federation titleholder, who beat him in the 1992 Olympic trials, or Andrew Lewis, the World Boxing Association champion.
Military intelligence analysts now estimate that there are 25,000 to 30,000 committed Taliban fighters and perhaps as many as 500,000 others who would fight either for pay or if they felt attacked by the Western coalition.
