Over at Big Story, another famous war poem: Wilfrid Owen’s Dulce et Decorum Est. It’s a good reminder that remembering the courage and sacrifice of our veterans and fetishizing war are two completely different things.
(For those of you whose Latin isn’t so hot — or didn’t learn this poem in high school: the title of the poem is derived from the adage dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, which is also the finale of the poem. It means “How sweet and decorous it is to die for one’s country”.)
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