Read the following passage from the story “Jeanne d’Arc.” Li…

Read the following passage from the story “Jeanne d’Arc.” Little French children six years old, reading that book when it was new, would have been just military age in 1914.  And here I am, who should know better, in another century, with that very book in my hands, telling other children the same old lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.What does the author mean when she refers to “telling other children the same old lie” in the passage?