"Strange Meeting" captures a sudden encounter in the afterlife by two soldiers who had killed each other in battle the day before. It argues that we destroy our mutual spirit, competitive generosity and republic of thought if we always treat those whose ideas differ from ours as only venal or vicious. "Strange Meeting" by Wilfred Owen
It seemed that out of the battle I escaped
from David Biespiel: The Oregonian: A poem to point political discourse toward civility
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