Sunday, November 4, 2018

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2LT Wilfred Owen died exactly 100 years ago this day, a week before the Armistice. His better-known Dulce et decorum Est can easily be found, so I will not provide a link. I enjoy teaching that one in my college classes.

I am also working on a poem about my great-uncle Edmond Schollaert, who was wounded in October 1918 and died two weeks after the Armistice.

A movie about Owen and Sassoon's war experience- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regeneration_(1997_film)

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