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DanaC 04-11-2012 01:32 PM
lamp's back!!

Gravdigr 04-12-2012 01:23 PM
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Originally Posted by ZenGum (Post 805939)
It is sweet and right to die for your country.
Quote:
Nobody ever won a war by dying for their country. You win a war by making the other poor, dumb bastard die for his country.
~Patton (maybe?)

ETA: Correction: Quote is by George C. Scott playing Patton.:)

Sundae 04-12-2012 02:15 PM
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Originally Posted by DanaC (Post 805996)
lamp's back!!
Sorry, I have no knowledge of that dogma.

DanaC 04-12-2012 05:24 PM
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Originally Posted by ZenGum (Post 805939)
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

It is sweet and right to die for your country.
The translation we were given when we studied Wilfred Owen, was: it is sweet and meet to die for the fatherland.

I rarely see that translation these days. It really stuck in my mind. Was the first time I'd ever come across that use of the word meet.

His poem Dulce et Decorum Est was probably the first poem to really grab me by the throat.


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