Derpetology: dulce et decorum est pro patria mori?

The following cartoons are even more disturbing than what I had in mind.

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This poem contains the often-quoted lines:

Then out spake brave Horatius,

The Captain of the Gate:

"To every man upon this earth

Death cometh soon or late.

And how can man die better

Than facing fearful odds,

For the ashes of his fathers,

And the temples of his Gods."[4][5]

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Derpetology