11th November Remembered

[mylescorcoran]

"Dulce et Decorum Est

Comments

[pocketnaomi]

Hey, I was going to quote that! I've been using Dulce as my Remembrance Day quote since I was 19.

[mylescorcoran]

Quote away. The beauty of words is that no one can use them up.

thanks

[wanton_heat_jet]

Have liked that poem a long time and am glad to read it again.

My grandfather was gassed in WWI. He survived, but I remember him as an old man sitting up at night coughing. He spent a lot of his night hours that way. His lungs were so bad that the doctors used X-rays of his chest to show students what gas could do to a man.