Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
(It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country).
So ends Wilfred Owen's famous poem condemning the barbarity of war.
Owen uses his recollection of death by gas attack in the trenches of WWI to illustrate something it would be well for us, in this age of smart-bombs, to remember, death is death. And it is never glorious, for good causes or bad.
One would think, none the less, that a soldier who's died fighting in his or her country's name would, at the least, be able to receive a decent burial close to family and friends. One would think.
...or not, more after the jump
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