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Watch: Sean Bean Reads WWI Poetry

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One of the bloodiest conflicts in human history ended 94 years ago this Sunday. Sometimes the saying is wrong, and a few carefully chosen words can be worth 1,000 images.

Watch Sean Bean and other performers read poems from the Great War here.

—Posted by Peter Z. Scheer. Follow him on Twitter: @peesch.

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