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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWednesday Toon Roundup 1- The Next War
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Wednesday Toon Roundup 1- The Next War (Original Post)
n2doc
Jul 2014
OP
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)1. That was very powerful
Thanks for posting
littlemissmartypants
(22,418 posts)2. Wow. Thank you! nt
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,485 posts)3. Thanks Doc
intaglio
(8,170 posts)4. Powerful n/t
JohnnyRingo
(18,581 posts)5. Kick!
Thanx for posting.
malaise
(267,832 posts)6. Powerful
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KoKo
(84,711 posts)7. Billy Bragg singing "Between the Wars" seems to go with this...
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yellerpup
(12,249 posts)8. Brilliant!
Beautiful work.
johnnyreb
(915 posts)9. "Trench Poetry"
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
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1626720657/downandoutint-20
HoosierCowboy
(561 posts)11. Bow down to the God Molech
...and bring your children onto him to be sacrificed.
Tom_Foolery
(4,688 posts)12. K & R. Thank you! n/t
marble falls
(56,359 posts)13. Good stuff.
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)14. kick for later n/t
dickthegrouch
(3,151 posts)15. The war to end all wars
I have nothing but contempt for anyone supporting any aspect of war.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)16. I saw a war memorial in a German town -
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
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.
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".
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.
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".
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)18. k&r
KoKo
(84,711 posts)19. Another Kick...we forget too soon and those who remember...
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.
Hekate
(90,202 posts)20. KnR. TY n2doc and SteveG.
Hekate
(90,202 posts)21. Dear God that's powerful