2. Rememberance day …
Remember soldiers who died during World War I
It is the day on which the peace treaty was signed …
inside a railway carriage …
• on the 11th
hour
• of the 11th
day
• of the 11th
month
• 1918
3. What do you know about the first
world war?
• Dates
• Causes
• Fighting Methods
42. • How much should we be grateful for our
soldiers, and why?
• What can the Christmas truce teach us?
43. Dulce Et Decorum est
Pro Patria Mori
• Bent double, like beggars under sacks,
• Knock-kneed and coughing, we cursed
through sludge,
• Till on the guns we turned our backs
• And towards our distant rest we trudged
• Men marched asleep, some lost their boots
• But limped on, blood-shod, lame and blind;
• Drunk with tiredness; and deaf to hoots
• Of outstripped Five-Nines dropped behind.
44. • Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! -- An ecstasy of
fumbling,
• Fitting our helmets just in time;
• But someone still there was yelling and
stumbling
• And flound'ring as if in fire or lime . . .
• Through misty panes and thick green light,
• As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
• In all my dreams, before my sight,
• He plunges towards me, guttering, drowning.
45. • If in dreams you too could pace
• Behind the wagon we flung him in,
• And watch those eyes writhe in his face,
• The face of a devil's, sick of sin;
• If you could hear, at every jolt,
• the blood come gargling from frothy lungs,
• Obscene as cancer, bitter as cud
• Incurable sores on innocent tongues, --
• You would not tell with such high zest
• To children ardent for desperate glory,
• Dulce et decorum est
• decorum est pro patria mori.