barbed wire
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strong wire with barbs at regular intervals used to prevent passage
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Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.
As long as there is a wall, barbed wire and orders to shoot, there can be no talk of normality in Germany.
War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.
It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.
I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.
It's going to be 20 feet high. It's going to have barbed wire on the top. It's going to be electrified. And there's going to be a sign on the other side saying, "It will kill you - Warning."