Do you know Wilfred Owen's poem "Dulce et decorum est"? Your post struck me almost as a summary of it.
The title is a Latin saying, "It is sweet and decorous to die for your country" (but you probably knew that). Here's what Owen thought of the sentiment:
just talkin' it out , like the therapists say...problem is-wife works days, i work nites and i live in the styx. won't see her til saturday. and i work alone. yeah. thankx for pointing me to a poem. i luv poetry. will check that out! bella detesta matribus ex coelis
can't even imagine a gas attack. not surprised though. i can handle men butchering men for dirt. i was a career man, seen lots of that. it's the horrors that war inflicts on the children that bothers me the most. they pay the heaviest price...and i get the medals. something wrong with that picture.
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The title is a Latin saying, "It is sweet and decorous to die for your country" (but you probably knew that). Here's what Owen thought of the sentiment:
http://www.potw.org/archive/potw3.html
Owen was killed on the front lines of WWI just days before the Armistice.
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thankx for pointing me to a poem. i luv poetry. will check that out!
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