News at Eleven: [WH] Auden was not a pacifist.

He registered for the US draft and was called in September 1942. He was turned down for being a homosexual, a rejection that made him feel 'very much sunk'. Still, by the end of the war, he did manage to get into uniform, and he served on the US Strategic Bombing Survey in Germany

from The Guardian: In praise of a guilty genius

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