Today is Nov. 11, Veterans' Day, a day we mark the contribution of all American veterans and their service to the nation. In Europe, they call today "Armistice Day." And they mark the day as the end ...

A reading of Wilfred Owen's poem, offered as a grandfather's flashback. A reading of Wilfred Owen's poem. The poem is offered as a grandfather's flashback, triggered by a radio broadcast of military ...

I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose. -- Randall Jarrell, "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" POOLER, GA.-- I am standing before ...

Every year, on Veterans Day, PennLive Opinion republishes one of the most powerful poems ever written about World War I: ‘Dulce et Decorum Est,’ by the English trench poet, Wilfred Owen. After ...

Anyone who has ever had the good fortune to spend some time in Europe knows the news coverage over there of America’s military forays differs drastically from the jingoistic pap one is subjected to ...