ENCINO, CALIFORNIA The skirl of the bagpipes, the Highland Claymore draped in Black Watch tartan, the men in kilts, all were incongruities in this San Fernando Valley Episcopal Church. May 15 had ...

Politics Dulce et Decorum Est Separating poetry from war politics Cathy Young | 2.11.2003 12:00 AM ...

About the poem 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.

Editor's Note: In observance of Veterans Day, PennLive will annually reprint "Dulce et Decorum Est," by the English poet Wilfred Owen. It's still the single, strongest reminder of the folly of war ...

Every year, on Veterans Day, PennLive Opinion republishes one of the most powerful poems ever written about World War I: ‘Dulce et Decorum Est,’ by the English trench poet, Wilfred Owen.