Word: ypres
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Their deaths in foreign French fields scattered from Verdun to Ypres remind us that we are ultimately responsible to a higher calling than just formals and final papers...
...fearsome business. In August 1914 an Englishman placed a personal ad in the London Times: "Pauline -- alas, it cannot be. But I will dash into the great venture with all that pride and spirit an ancient race has given me." The man's generation, destined for the trenches at Ypres and the Somme, was almost innocent enough to ship off thinking of Horace's lines: "Dulce et decorum est/ Pro patria mori." Years later, American boys flying to Vietnam sometimes unreeled John Wayne movies in their head. That was the model; that was what a man should look like...