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		Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen

		Oh stay at home, my lad, and plough by A. E. Housman

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		The Iliad, Book I, Lines 1-15 by Homer

		War Music [Down on your knees, Achilles] by Christopher Logue

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		April 27, 1937 by Timothy Steele

		Bagram, Afghanistan, 2002 by Marvin Bell

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War and Hell, XVI [I am a great inventor]
by Ernest Crosby

I am a great inventor, did you but know it. I have new weapons and explosives and devices to substitute for your obsolete tactics and tools. Mine are the battle-ships of righteousness and integrity— The armor-plates of a quiet conscience and self-respect— The impregnable conning-tower of divine manhood— The Long Toms of persuasion— The machine guns of influence and example— The dum-dum bullets of pity and remorse— The impervious cordon of sympathy— The concentration camps of brotherhood— The submarine craft of forgiveness— The torpedo-boat-destroyer of love— And behind them all the dynamite of truth! I do not patent my inventions. Take them. They are free to all the world.

1902

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