Response To Paul Baumer's Essay '

If Paul Baumer were to respond to my first essay he would strongly disagree with it. Also, he would disagree with the Roman’s saying, Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, for many reasons. First, Paul would disagree with my first essay because soldiers detach themselves from their feelings for the sake of surviving another day in the brutal war. “Just as we turn into animals when we go up to the line, because that is the only thing that brings us through safely…We can do nothing else, it is a sheer necessity. We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings,” (Remarque 139). Secondly, Paul would disagree with my first essay because the men have realized the soldiers across enemy lines are people just like them, Paul