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Thread #158483   Message #3749798
Posted By: Greg F.
10-Nov-15 - 09:42 AM
Thread Name: BS: Why a veteran is not wearing a poppy
Subject: RE: BS: Why a veteran is not wearing a poppy
I had meant to post this in response to 06 Nov 15 - 09:04 PM, but was distracted:

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.