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Originally Posted by DeepSix
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No hard feelings, here, I'm not looking for agreement so much as understanding where you're coming from. What, exactly, is "Milton's" sort of history? How is his poem "On Time" any less appropriate than "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori?"
[Edit: Second (or third) to the suggestion to include Arizona. And West Virginia, and Oglala, and Downes, and so on. Currently, Pearl Harbor looks way too "untouched" for December 9-10.]
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I see where you
both are coming from, but nothing snowman99 wrote is in anyway an endorsment of
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori at all. What Milton is saying is nothing about the physical part of death being peaceful but about the spiritual part of the hereafter...as was said he was a Christian.