The years have not changed you, my fellow mortals. Still you rage and go to war. Still you fall upon each other, driven by pride and greed and the desire to conquer the earth… (imaginative letter from Homer by Louis Markos)
— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/12/on-war-homer-advice-to-us-louis-markos.html
It is the encounter with beauty, all-consuming beauty, the infinite, which directs the human soul back to God. The sky calls us up; the earth drags us down… (essay by Paul Krause)
— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/12/annunciation-battlefield-paul-krause.html
A culture that fails to represent, or that misrepresents its wars in all their glory, gravity, and tragedy, is a weaker polity. Epic poetry, with its stark recording of the facts and feelings of war, can give cultures and communities access to the reality of warfare and inscribe its memory on the collective consciousness and conscience of the people… (essay by Patrick Whalen)
— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/11/warfare-epic-poetry-patrick-whalen.html
A good read for both those who served, and those who may wish to better understand them.
The WWI Conspiracy – Part Three: A New World Order – YouTube
— Read on m.youtube.com/watch
There is evil in our world 🌍
Lawman George Bartlett operated a trading post on Wounded Knee Creek, was present during the 1890 clash and went on to become a sharpshooting showman
— Read on www.historynet.com/eyewitness-wounded-knee.htm
More history.
The Treaties of World War I – YouTube
— Read on m.youtube.com/watch
It could also be called the reason for both World Wars
On November 11, more than on any other day, we ought to remind ourselves that while some wars need to be fought, most don’t. We need to remember the horrors of World War I, and we need to remember the price young men and women pay whenever we allow ourselves to be duped into another needless conflict… (essay by Joseph Mussomeli)
— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/11/100-years-world-war-i-joseph-mussomeli.html
The renewed Hamas attacks on Israel serve as a reminder that the terrorist group is not interested in a real truce. Hamas wants millions of dollars paid to its employees so that it can continue to prepare for war with Israel while not having to worry
— Read on www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13297/hamas-missiles-qatari-money
Don’t trust the enemy.
In contrast to older historians who regarded World War I as the destruction of progressive reform, Murray Rothbard was convinced that the war came to the United States as the “fulfillment,” the culmination, the veritable apotheosis of progressivism in American life. He regarded progressivism as basically a movement on behalf of Big Government in all walks of the economy and
— Read on mises.org/library/world-war-i-fulfillment-power-and-intellectuals
Hate the war, celebrate the warriors.
Why we now know the pity of war – UnHerd
— Read on unherd.com/2018/11/shall-never-forget-pity-war/
War and violence should be a last resort.
John Barleycorn 
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