In Europe, they call today "Armistice Day." And they mark the day as the end of World War I, when the Treaty of Versailles was signed, at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.

When war broke out, he was teaching English ... One of his poems took as its title the first part of a line from Horace: “Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori.” (“It is sweet and honorable ...

Wilfred Owen's most famous piece “Dulce et decorum est” was originally drafted in October 1917 while he lay recovering from shellshock at Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh. It was publis ...

Owen is considered one of the greatest war poets, thanks in part to his moving poem Dulce et Decorum Est. The poem describes a gas attack in the trenches and pulsates with a sense of horror and ...

Every Veterans Day, PennLive republishes "Dulce et Decorum Est," by Wilfred Owen, a British soldier and poet who wrote one of the most enduring poems of the World War I era. It is thought to have ...

The apparently imminent war against Iraq has already claimed one casualty: a White House celebration of "Poetry and the American Voice." The event, which was to be hosted by first lady Laura Bush ...

Over 15,000 Canadians waded ashore on D-Day–this from a nation of 16,000,000! By the war’s end, Canada had the world’s third largest navy and fourth largest air force. In Korea, too ...

The occasion was the dedication of the India War Memorial, later renamed India Gate. This “magnificent arch”, he continued, “is not only a tribute to the Indian dead but is the gateway to ...