Well, I asked him who would start the war first.
Meaning of the quote
The quote suggests that Samantha Smith, an American celebrity, asked someone a question about who would start a war first. This implies that she was concerned about the possibility of a war breaking out and wanted to understand who might initiate it.
About Samantha Smith
Samantha Smith was an American peace activist and child actress who became famous for her anti-war outreaches during the Cold War. She wrote a letter to the Soviet leader Yuri Andropov and received an invitation to visit the Soviet Union, which she accepted. She later became a child actress and tragically passed away at the age of 13 in a plane crash.
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He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it.
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Well, I asked him who would start the war first.
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And he said that he didn’t want to have a war or anything like that again.
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God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight.
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Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.
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If you aren’t please tell me how you are going to not have a war.
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