But the wounds of a distant war haven't yet healed, for either man.
His body had been damaged by some long distant war.
All the military services tend to think of that distant war as a European conflict.
In order to win her father's approval, he became involved in a distant war.
Not at all a distant war here, bleeding Bosnia is on the doorstep.
They trained for years and then chose a distant war in which to die.
A distant war could roll across an ocean and crash on this shore.
In this story, one British soldier's personal chronicle of a now distant war, you don't have to worry about the outcome.
Defeated in a distant war four hundred years ago, the survivors had fled across the sea to found a new city.
It all seems so far removed from the attacks of Sept. 11 and the distant war they spawned.