What is War?

Why do we fight them?

Remember my story about the guy on the bus?

Where or what do we �learn about WAR from?

What do we these things have in common?

The Ballad of the Green Beret

It’s not just movies & songs…

The Soldier

by Rupert Brooke

If I should die, think only this of me;

That there's some corner of a foreign field

That is for ever England. There shall be

In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;

A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,

Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,

A body of England's breathing English air,

Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,

A pulse in the eternal mind, no less

Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;

Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;

And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness

In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

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The Call by Jessie Pope

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Who's for the trench—

Are you, my laddie?

Who'll follow French—

Will you, my laddie?

Who's fretting to begin,

Who's going out to win?

And who wants to save his skin—

Do you, my laddie?

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Who's for the khaki suit—

Are you, my laddie?

Who longs to charge and shoot—

Do you, my laddie?

Who's keen on getting fit,

Who means to show his grit,

And who'd rather wait a bit—

Would you, my laddie?

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Who'll earn the Empire's thanks—

Will you, my laddie?

Who'll swell the victor's ranks—

Will you, my laddie?

When that procession comes,

Banners and rolling drums—

Who'll stand and bite his thumbs—

Will you, my laddie?

Please keep this poem in�mind as we read the next…

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Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen

From the Owen’s original manuscript for “Dulce”

Slaughter House Five

I Saw it on TV

The Things They Carried�What makes a “true” war story?

• Is never moral.

• Does not instruct, nor encourage virtue

• Does not restrain men from doing the

things they have always done.

• It has an absolute/uncompromising

allegiance to obscenity. It embarrasses.

• It never seems to end.

• It makes the stomach believe.

• It is not about war – it is about sunlight.

So – the central question to ask as you read All Quiet:��How do you DEromanticize a book about war?

Oh yeah, the guy on the bus…

A different ballad…

Any time left – let’s listen to �another song or two… or read�a poem… you decide���REMINDER – Chapters 1 & 2�for our next class…give them�the time they deserve