I was with him all through the war and we came home together.

Came back to see the old country through the war.

They were just a group of people who had gone through the war.

He went all the way through the war, you know.

Within 30 years almost all were dead through disease and war.

He'd been through the war himself, as she had, though not in the same service.

"But you kept your place open all through the war!"

"Someone had to keep order through the war and after."

What chance had the agent of living through the war?

Besides, how likely is either one of us to live through the war?