War is not an honorable thing to die for

They try to tell the lie that it is sweet and honorable to die for your country. I do not think that war is an honorable thing to die for. What is so honorable about killing people and risking your own life just to do so, in war there can never really be a true winner. Too much is lost and not enough is gained to make up for it. I honestly can see where Owen is coming from. After a man sees his friends broken and beaten and still have to carry on and fight for a cause that is not their own it can really wear on a person. Especially watching one of your fellow soldiers die right in front of your eyes, I'm sure a person wouldn't feel very honorable after witnessing something like that. I think that "Dulce Et Decorum Est" is an anti war poem and that Owens is using a "shock factor" to show this. He wants to show the horrors of what happens in war to let the reader know it is something they should not get involved in no matter how honorable the cause may seem to begin with. He basically even comes out and says it is an anti war poem by saying "The old lie: Dulce et decorum est/Pro patria mori."