Supreme Duty  Do you believe the noblest thing you can do is to die for your country?

The Great Speeches Nationalism, Patriotism, Duty

Gettysburg Address  Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, For the people, shall not perish from this earth. Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln

The Great Books of Antiquity Speak About Duty and the Glory of War

Off to War!  Glory, Honor, Duty

Erich Maria Remarque  War is a great fraud imposed upon ordinary people by their incompetent leaders.

Army field kitchen

What are we fighting for?

Weapons of WWI

The Leaders of the Great European Powers Should Fight It Out!

Home Sweet Home

“You are the iron youth of Germany!”

Remember the Spartans!

Army Enlistment Center

Soldiers Going Over The Top

Army Hospital

Bombardment

A Graveyard

Enemies in the same trench

War turns us into thugs!

Gas Attack!

Home Sweet Home?

What was it like at the front?

Wilfred Owen ( )  Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori. videovideo  "It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country.”-take this Horace!  Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our distant rest began to trudge.  Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.  Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! - An ecstasy of fumbling, Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time; But someone still was yelling out and stumbling, And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime... Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.  In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;  If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, - My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

Deep Dark Abyss

“All Quiet On The Western Front”  11 million dead

War of Purpose?  Did the war finally end German aggression?

Adolph Hitler and the Rise of Nazism