Myth: “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” – It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. Reality: As World War I poet Wilfred Owen showed in searing detail, this is the “old Lie.

I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose. -- Randall Jarrell, "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" POOLER, GA.-- I am standing ...

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Dulce et Decorum est/ Pro patria mori. It is taken from a line from the Roman poet Horace’s Odes and is contested in Owen’s poem as ‘the old lie’. Readers familiar with the horrors contained in the ...

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 ...

A reading of Wilfred Owen's poem, offered as a grandfather's flashback. A reading of Wilfred Owen's poem. The poem is offered as a grandfather's flashback, triggered by a radio broadcast of ...

Wasteland. Hell… I’m still only in Wasteland. Every minute I stay in this room I get weaker, and every minute my matched opponent Tilby squats in the desert, he gets stronger. Patunka Games, a new ...

And ‘War is stupid, and people are stupid’ just doesn’t have the resonance of ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est‘. Owen’s poem whips you with an imagery-laden banner that says in its simplest terms and with a ...

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. “It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country!” How many of us believe that? Mayans, Garifunas, Creoles, Mestizos, Arabs, Chinese, Mennonites, East Indians!

If you love good films, like to read history and enjoy literature, you must be familiar with three big names: Rudyard Kipling, Michael Collins, and T E Lawrence — aka Lawrence of Arabia.