Bury the Dead (1936) is an expressionist and anti-war drama by the American playwright Irwin Shaw.
It dramatizes the refusal of six dead soldiers during an unspecified war—who represent a cross-section of American society—to be buried.
Each rises from a mass nameless grave to express his anguish, the futility of war, and his refusal to become part of the "glorious past".
Newspapers refuse to print the story in fear it will hurt the war effort.
Finally they bring in the women who have survived them, wives, sister and even mother.