According to Roman poet and satirist
Horace (65-8 B.C.), "
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori (It is sweet and seemly to die for one's country)." Is it? Today read the poem
"Memorial Day" by American poet
Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918).
(Tomorrow: a poem by Wilfred Owen)
of the Fighting 69th Infantry Regiment,
United States Army, c. 1918
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