of Blood and Pride.

picture taken from http://www.sonofthesouth.net/uncle-sam/world-war-1-poster.htm

World War 1 (1914-1918) was first known as the Greatest War that involved hopes and expectations of a better tomorrow by taking down their own 'enemy'. The naive souls were not prepared for the mass destruction of land and humanity that showered them with blood. Realising it was too late to take back their roaring propaganda and promises, these shivered soldiers swallowed their paranoia as they know they were going to die with pride.

Siegfried Sassoon, Suicide in the Trenches

I knew a simple soldier boy

Who grinned at life in empty joy,

Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,

And whistled early with the lark.

In winter trenches, cowed and glum,

With crumps and lice and lack of rum,

He put a bullet through his brain.

No one spoke of him again.

     .     .     .     .

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye

Who cheer when soldier lads march by,

Sneak home and pray you'll never know

The hell where youth and laughter go.

image taken from http://www.swintonfitzwilliam.org/?p=1874

World War 2 (1939-1945). At the end of the war the camps were so filled with the dead and the dying that they were serious health hazards to the local population, even after the survivors had been rescued. 

Beside A German Waterfall - Author unknown

Beside a German waterfall

On a very bright summer day

Beside a shattered airplane a navigator lay.

His pilot hung from a coconut tree

He was not yet quite dead

So listen to the very last words the navigator said.

We're going to a better land

Where everything's all right

Where whiskey flows from telephone poles

Play poker every night

We'll never have to work again

Just sit around and listen

We'll have beaucoup wild women

Oh death where is thy sting.

References:

1. http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111ww1.html
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_poet
3. http://world-war-2.info/poems/
4. http://www.historynotes.info/world-war-ii-aftermath-facts-1298/