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Wednesday Toon Roundup 1- The Next War (Original Post) n2doc Jul 2014 OP
That was very powerful Gothmog Jul 2014 #1
Wow. Thank you! nt littlemissmartypants Jul 2014 #2
Thanks Doc Dyedinthewoolliberal Jul 2014 #3
Powerful n/t intaglio Jul 2014 #4
Kick! JohnnyRingo Jul 2014 #5
Powerful malaise Jul 2014 #6
Billy Bragg singing "Between the Wars" seems to go with this... KoKo Jul 2014 #7
Brilliant! yellerpup Jul 2014 #8
"Trench Poetry" johnnyreb Jul 2014 #9
All Toons SteveG Jul 2014 #10
Bow down to the God Molech HoosierCowboy Jul 2014 #11
K & R. Thank you! n/t Tom_Foolery Jul 2014 #12
Good stuff. marble falls Jul 2014 #13
kick for later n/t hootinholler Jul 2014 #14
The war to end all wars dickthegrouch Jul 2014 #15
I saw a war memorial in a German town - hedgehog Jul 2014 #16
Wilfred Owen wrote a poem that fits Fortinbras Armstrong Jul 2014 #17
k&r Electric Monk Jul 2014 #18
Another Kick...we forget too soon and those who remember... KoKo Jul 2014 #19
KnR. TY n2doc and SteveG. Hekate Jul 2014 #20
Dear God that's powerful Hekate Jul 2014 #21

johnnyreb

(915 posts)
9. "Trench Poetry"
Wed Jul 30, 2014, 11:00 AM
Jul 2014

Severely fantastic toon, thanks so much n2doc.

From the amazon link:

As the Great War dragged on and its catastrophic death toll mounted, a new artistic movement found its feet in the United Kingdom. The Trench Poets, as they came to be called, were soldier-poets dispatching their verse from the front lines. Known for its rejection of war as a romantic or noble enterprise, and its plainspoken condemnation of the senseless bloodshed of war, Trench Poetry soon became one of the most significant literary moments of its decade.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1626720657/downandoutint-20

hedgehog

(36,286 posts)
16. I saw a war memorial in a German town -
Wed Jul 30, 2014, 12:39 PM
Jul 2014

It listed half a dozen names from the Franco-Prussian War when it was first built.

Then, below on two sides were dozens of names from WWI.

Then, wrapped around the rest, were a couple hundred names from WWII.

Fortinbras Armstrong

(4,473 posts)
17. Wilfred Owen wrote a poem that fits
Wed Jul 30, 2014, 12:49 PM
Jul 2014
Dulce Et Decorum Est

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
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of disappointed shells that dropped behind.

GAS! Gas! Quick, boys!-- An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And floundering like a man in fire or lime.--
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,--
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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Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori comes from a Latin poem by Horace. It translates to "It is sweet and fitting to die for the fatherland"; a sentiment Owen rightly calls "the old lie".

KoKo

(84,711 posts)
19. Another Kick...we forget too soon and those who remember...
Wed Jul 30, 2014, 06:10 PM
Jul 2014

Those TWO WARS in beginning of 20th Century might be doomed to REPEAT...

It's sure looking like WAR...WAR...and MORE WAR...these days.

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