Memorial Day Poem: "Sweet and Fitting..."

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Mon, 05/26/2014 - 12:00am
Wilfrid Owen's poem "Sweet and Fitting"
"Sweet and fitting it is to die for one's country," wrote the Roman poet Horace.  World War I poet Wilfrid Owen overturns this sentiment in the light of his experiences of war in this poem read for us here by Tom Becker.  
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