That speech at West Point was the one in which he announced that he was sending reinforcements to Afghanistan in spite of the war's unpopularity at home.
They are the only Democrats who want to end the war, bring home the troops and, at the same time, keep some U.S. soldiers and Marines in Iraq.
She's as American as my grandfather, who grew up on Missouri farmland in the early 1900s, and who spoke nothing but German at home until the start of World War I.
And so at this moment, as we wind down the war in Iraq, we must tackle those challenges at home with as much energy, and grit, and sense of common purpose as our men and women in uniform who have served abroad.
Recovery has been much slower and much more uneven than most forecasts had suggested at the beginning of this year, and opinion polls during the election showed that economic worries at home preoccupy Americans more than the prospect of war with Iraq.
The guerrilla war is hardly an adventure abroad, but the chief of Colombia's troubles at home.
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Doug Springsteen was an Army driver in Europe during the Second World War who came home and seethed at his crabbed circumstances.
Those who fight the war on drugs, with its strict penalties at home and sharp punishment abroad, point to seizures of both drugs and their users as victories.
Thus, Democrats have held a White House "women's summit, " accused Mr. Romney of wanting to deny women health care and equal pay, and even hit Ann Romney for the war crime of being a stay-at-home mom.
So, the government set out to remind those at home that their efforts were every bit as important to the war effort as were the sacrifices of the frontline fighters.
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In that sense the war artist can bridge the gap, by bringing home to people what it actually means to be at war.
She's a retired Navy captain and a fellow at the Center for the Study of War and Society at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, joins us by phone from her home in Knoxville.
During the second world war they lived in Britain, at first at the Ritz hotel in London and then in a rented stately home.
Daddy had seven boys in the war, six overseas at once, and we all came home.
Nonetheless, new releases of Unreal Tournament and Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War for the PC and a new generation of home consoles give the gurus confidence Midway will soon be making money for Redstone and other investors.
In a similar vein, well run foreign retailers such as Tesco and Aldi, a German hard discounter, may find their expansion in America goes better now that so many local rivals are feeling pain (the two firms are fighting a price war against each other at home in Europe).
Peace at home is as important as the absence of war among nations.
Democrats have credited their opposition to the war in Iraq, now five years old and widely unpopular at home, for the 2006 election victories that gave them control of the House and Senate.
Change is finally turning the page on a decade of war to do some nation-building here at home.
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W. Brands, a prolific author and teacher at the University of Texas, is a different sort of history: a clear, broad summary of events at home and abroad from the end of the second world war to the election of Barack Obama.
He has always argued that, if Serbs committed war crimes, they should be tried at home, not in The Hague.
Change is turning the page on a decade of war so we can do some nation-building here at home.
Change is turning the page on a decade of war so we can focus on nation-building here at home.
After all, at the end of World War II, so many Americans like my grandfather came home to new opportunities.
But as we end the war in Iraq and transition to Afghan responsibility, we must rebuild our strength here at home.
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Change -- real change -- is turning the page on a decade of war so we can do some nation-building here at home.
In 1945, at the end of the war, the majority of the children made the return trip home to families who barely recognised their grown-up, independent offspring.
At work as we were leaving for home on the 7th May we were told the war was likely to end tomorrow.
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