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The Vital Necessity of Telling War Stories

By Robin Bates | Published: May 27, 2013

To celebrate Memorial Day, listen to a veteran’s stories.

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Memorializing Our Lost Innocence

By Robin Bates | Published: May 28, 2012

Wilfred Owen’s “Strange Meeting” is not only about the soldiers who have died but how their death taints the living.

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Weep, For You May Touch Them Not

By Robin Bates | Published: May 30, 2011

In his poem “Greater Love,” Owen describes two deaths. One is the physical death of soldiers, which is tragic enough. But the other death is also heartbreaking: the death of innocence that occurs when people become intimately acquainted with war.

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