ext_142321 ([identity profile] cathellisen.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] lookingland 2007-02-24 03:52 pm (UTC)

anyway, i'm once again reminded that there's the romantic legacy of war and then there's the awful truth.

An idea that is summed up perfectly by Wilfred Owen.

"My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est
Pro patria mori."

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