American Battle Monuments Commission

Futility, Anthem For Doomed Youth, Dulce et decorum est and Mental cases by Wilfred Owens “Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The poetry is in the pity… All a poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.” - Wilfred Owen, quoted in Voices In wartime, The Movie Wilfred Owen was born in 1893 and killed in 1918. At Twenty-Five years of age, he was the greatest poet of the First World War. He wrote many

Women in Literature Throughout generations women have been always been treated as second class citizens in society. This concept is portrayed in many different novels from past generations, it is shown how women had to live by societies will or else they would be out casted and left in isolation. They were discredited, such as their help during the first Great War and described unfavorably by men in literature and even some women in society. To society women were to be homemakers, while the men

When stories are told and tales are made up, you think of great heroes, random loot and epic adventures. Well see here’s the great ordeal we run into with those stories. They are so damn boring! You can always guess what will happen in the end. Not to mention the heroes always win with impossible odds! You essentially waste your time listening to some want-to-be story teller and their made up shenanigans. You must be thinking “what is this old drunk fool blabbing about this time?” Well! Unlike those

World War I was a time of constant worry and woe for the destruction caused to the European countryside. Ernest Hemingway depicts the life of an American ambulance driver working for the Italian army through the Great War in the semi-autobiographical A Farewell to Arms, incorporating elements of his own experience in the war into that of his narrator Fredric Henry. One of the most effective tools to display the destruction and chaos of this war was Hemingway’s writing style, clearly seen in the opening

quiet city, the relationship that they had built crumbled. This partially was due to inconsistency in experience, as it was impossible to understand what someone else had gone through. Septimus, for example, had lost his best friend and lover in battle, yet had never let himself confront these feelings. Rezia, on the other

The expansion during the Wilhelmine period in Germany and the sociopolitical factors of that time helped start a war that more than Germany alone were responsible for starting. This war, that started in 1914, came to be known the Great War and was later known as World War I. This war was a defining moment in German and world history as a whole. Although Germany was not solely responsible for starting the war, there were certain actions that Germany did to help lead to World War I. Although more

"All is Fair…" is an original composition which comments on the trials and tribulations of love and affection experienced by the persona within the piece. The poem is written in the form of a Petrarchan sonnet, consisting of 16 lines. Sonnets written in this form are generically associated with adoration, love and the courtship process. I set out to adopt this form and create a commentary on the association between love and conflict. The text is set in England, 1914: The first year of The Great War

War is full of death and destruction, it is full of a lot of things including literature. In war there are no rules, the same is for literature there are no rules the possibility of what to write about is endless. My fascination of war truly began when my grandfather started to open up about what he went through in the Vietnam War. Most soldiers who have went to war and have come back are not the same as when they left. It is very hard for them to talk about what they have been through while at war

The Building and Development The National World War II Memorial was created when President Clinton enabled the American Battle Monuments Commission to establish a World War II Memorial. Leo A. Daly was in charge of the entire building process. He was also responsible for many other projects for the U.S government. The monument was designed by Friedrich St. Florian. He was chosen to design it from over four hundred entries in the national competition. Raymond J. Kaskey, a sculpture who’s an architect

Honoring the Veterans What is Honor Flight? It is an amazing organization that honors World War II and Korean veterans. The veterans go to Washington D.C. to see their monuments for an entire day and some even go for multiple days. The veterans finally get to see the monuments that were built for them. The Korean War memorial, the World War II memorial, and the beginning of Honor Flight all have a great story. Honor Flight is one the widest known organization that is dedicated to veterans. Honor