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Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
A Roman poet named Horace wrote words that military leaders still quote today, and often still quote them in Latin: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. -- "it is sweet and decorous to die for your country."
British war poet Wilfred Owen later wrote a poem titled Dulce Et Decorum Est in which the phrase was described as "the old lie".
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