It's one of my favorites to read on Memorial Day, I know Owen's work well, so thanks for adding it.

It sort of always bothers me that people treat the day like a fun "start of the summer" holiday, it's a deadly serious day to remember the war dead. So I try to take a few minutes to do so in my own way. Mostly with poetry in my case, though photographs sometimes seem appropriate too, historic and of memorials.

Just found a serendipitous link between the two poems posted:

Garden of peace to be created to honour war poet Wilfred Owen @ The Scotsman, May 27

He gave voice to the infantrymen of the First World War with his unflinching studies of the horror of conflict. Now, a century on from his stay at Edinburgh’s pioneering Craiglockhart War Hospital, a garden of remembrance is to be created in honour of the poet Wilfred Owen [....]

He was diagnosed with shell shock after serving with the 2nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment, and was sent for treatment at Craiglockhart, now part of Edinburgh Napier University’s Craiglockhart campus. During his time in the city, he met fellow war poet, Siegfried Sassoon, who would play a pivotal role in encouraging the young Owen to document his experiences. Over the course of just four months in Edinburgh, he became the editor of the hospital magazine, The Hydra, and wrote dozens of poems. They included Dulce Et Decorum Est and Anthem For Doomed Youth, two of his most enduring works which addressed, in Owen’s words, the “pity of war” [....]