#gas attack

Echoes of Halabja: A poem of Tragedy and Triumph — A poem by Me

In fair land of Kurdistan Where we lay our scene There lies a city Called Halabja serene

But on a day of woe A tyrant's wrath did reign And in his fury Thousands did he slay

A city so proud Woke up under a deadly cloud With poison gas so vile It silenced every other sound

The screams of the dying The cries of despair As they suffocated Unable to bear

Families torn apart With cries of fear and pain As their loved ones fell Like leaves in a hurricane

But we still remember We honour the dead The unforgotten victims Forever in our hearts etched

But in the end The tyrant finally fell And they were free once more To build their own story to tell

Now the serene city still stands A testament to their might A reminder of their struggle And a reminder of their fight

For freedom, and for liberation In fair Kurdistan, a new generation Will live in peace, and never more Experience the terrors of that fateful day of yore

We remember those who fell And the ones who went Their courage shone Even in their descent They fought with might Until the very last scent

Cause and Effect by Pokeydotes

Dulce et Decorum Est

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots, But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of gas-shells dropping softly behind. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time, But someone still was yelling out and stumbling And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.— Dim through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,— My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

More than a month after 1st Imperial German gas attack (Apr 22 1915) Nebraska newspaper Omaha Daily Bee #OTD May 30 1915 publishes a photo of British troops showing their masks and their boots with the caption they are thankful for their new "respirators."

Pictures from "The Childrens' Story of the War" by James Edward Parrott. They describe the first use of poison gas by the Imperial German Army on Apr 22 1915. Right Chaos as French colonials and panic-stricken refugees fleeing the Gas, the crowd street.

1st gas attack was on Apr 22 1915, the Imperial German gas cloud with its "uncanny green-yellow tendrils seemed to slither over the battlefield, filling the crevices, craters and trenches" A.Y. Jackson, Gas Attack, Liévin, 1918. Beaverbrook Collection of War Art/19710261-0179

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Going off my previous post about needing an OC for the homeroom teacher of 1C in UA, here is Gas Attack.

One of the rare superheroes who keeps her civilian name private, Gas Attack is technically a hero but actually mostly works with the military due to the nature of her Quirk.

Gas Attack breathes out deadly gas that can kill people in under a minute. Due to this she wears a specialized gas mask that moves her poison to a filtration device on her back. Gas Attack can use another specialized device that filtrates the poison enough it isn’t deadly and often works in big raids with the police on gang hideouts to take them out there, keeping them alive though often they’re very sick afterwards and she is considered a last resort.

Gas Attack teaches 1C due to her considering retirement from the military while needing to be monitored and also because she likes to show that while you might have a hero license you don’t have to be a hero. She certainly doesn’t consider herself one. She also brings up the fact the only reason she does work with the government is due to her knowing otherwise she’d be more closely monitored and would be considered a high risk. The only reason she works at UA is due to the fact she would be monitored there and could prove she wasn’t doing damage.

She also does do a special lecture for the second year Hero students as she shows them that sometimes you have to kill in this job and it’s not a nice time. She has worked with a few heroes who had to take out a villain and had no other choice but to use her.

She does look into some of the Hero students and has offered one or two an internship depending on if she thinks they could be useful in the military like she is. Mostly this is due to her knowing that otherwise they’d be put as a high risk for villainy hero or because she thinks the military life would suit them. She might not like being a weapon but she does like the structure of the military.

Gas Attack tends to be aloof from the other teachers due to her Quirk but she does have friends among the staff. Thirteen and Aizawa are some.

Also: Gas Attack is actually over forty years old.