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Editor's Note: In observance of Veterans Day, PennLive will annually reprint "Dulce et Decorum Est," by the English poet Wilfred Owen. It's still the single, strongest reminder of the folly of war ...
Dulce Et Decorum Est. President Bush rues his inability to serve in Afghanistan: "I must say, I'm a little envious," Bush said. "If I were slightly younger and not employed here, ...
Anyone who has ever had the good fortune to spend some time in Europe knows the news coverage over there of America’s military forays differs drastically from the jingoistic pap one is subjected to ...
Dulce et Decorum Est. Episode 22 | 5m 18s. A reading of Wilfred Owen's poem. The poem is offered as a grandfather's flashback, triggered by a radio broadcast of military action in Vietnam, June of ...
ENCINO, CALIFORNIA The skirl of the bagpipes, the Highland Claymore draped in Black Watch tartan, the men in kilts, all were incongruities in this San Fernando Valley Episcopal Church. May 15 had ...
This Saturday, at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month, the nation will pause to observe Veterans Day. Because PennLive/The Patriot-News will not publish a print edition on Saturday, we ...
Remembering 1914: Dulce Et Decorum Est. By John Cassidy. August 5, 2014. Save this story. Save this story. Photograph by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty. A hundred years ago ...
Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen. Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs ...
Wilfred Owen's most famous piece “Dulce et decorum est” was originally drafted in October 1917 while he lay recovering from shellshock at Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh.
The Unquiet Western Front Britain's Role in Literature and History by Brian Bond Cambridge University Press, 120 pp., $25 THE FIRST WORLD WAR was an unnecessary war. In it, brave working-class ...