Two Scott Bates poems get at the dark days in America following World War II.
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Lesson of War: Fear + Fear = Hate
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Hagel: “No Glory, Only Suffering in War”
Some of Chuck Hagel’s statements about war are reminiscent of the anti-war poetry of Wilfred Owen.
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Sweethearts Now Cleared for Combat
Tim O’Brien’s Vietnam War story about a woman who goes rogue has things to teach us about the recent suspension of the Pentagon ban on women in combat.
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Respect Soldiers, Keep Them Safe
In a number of his poems, Kipling honors the common soldier by giving us his perspective.
Sacrifice Ram of Pride, Not Isaac
Rumi honors the Muslim holiday of Eid Al-Adha, which centers on the story of Abraham and Isaac.
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Author PTSD Led to Billy Pilgrim, Holden
It can be argued that “Slaughterhouse Five” and “Catcher in the Rye” were both shaped by their authors suffering from PTSD.
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Memorializing Our Lost Innocence
Wilfred Owen’s “Strange Meeting” is not only about the soldiers who have died but how their death taints the living.
War’s Human Costs (So Rethink Iran)
Levertov’s “What Were They Like” gives us a poem that may help dampen hysteria about going to war with Iran.
A “Greatest Generation” Vet Reflects
World War II vet Scott Bates remembers the war far differently from the images we have of it–not as heroic but as “people surrounded by dying men.”
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