Dulce Et Decorum Est - With Guest Aziz Mejia

The Troubadour Podcast

English - January 22, 2018 05:00 - 3 hours - 101 MB
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Is it honorable to die for one's country?War has always been sold to the public as an honorable and glorious thing. Is there anything honorable about death? Wilfred Owen in his famous anti-war poem draws a terrifying description of the realities of war in order to counter the propaganda urging young men to fight for their country. After all "it's the honorable thing to do."