Great site I just found:

[Brigid]

And my favorite war (or anti-war, I should say) poem, Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen.

[link:http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/owen1.html|

[renate]

1. wow... "Anthem for Doomed Youth" just knocked the breath out of me

Something about WWI is so inutterably poignant; all wars are and all deaths in war are, but although I am not a student of history it seems that in this one in particular, the soldiers were so naive and their deaths so numerous for, often, absolutely no gains.

Thank you for sharing this.

[Brigid]

2. Ever seen the original "All Quiet on the Western Front?"

In one scene a young German soldier, fresh from the front, visits his alma mater. The boys, only a few years younger, asks him what combat is like. He replies, "We fight. And we try not to be killed."

And my favorite, a scene where three German soldiers are sitting around a campfire, musing about how wars get started.

"It's when one country offends another," says one.
"You mean a hill in Germany gets mad at a field in France?" says another.
"No, I mean when one people offends another. Yes, that's it."
"Then why am I here?" says a grizzled old sergeant. "I don't feel offended."

Yes, there is just something about World War 1.