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Lest we forget.
seems they all did :shock:
Alas it doth seem they do Trapper.
One Hundred Years on I shall not forget nor should others forget
As time may pass and war is still waged thou should not but yet
While time moves on and wounds do heal one thing is for sure
To forgive is humane but yet to forget is not the same so we do endure.The unknown Soldier shall not be unknown for most of us feel the loss still raw
There was no unknown hero just one we didn’t know as off to attrition they did go
To fight and bear arms in a place not known true heroism the likes of which we never will know.
So lest we forget but best we not forget for those places we never will need to go.The Greatest Respect to each and every Soldier of all Countries , races and Religions who
gave all and paid the ultimate price in what was a horrific conflict that hopefully shaped the future and hopefully the legacy of such loss will one day make the World we live in see
sense. There may have been wars since and still are but the poignant memories of days
gone by when men , women , boys and girls lost wives , husbands , sons and daughters in
a time that was past but never forgotten.R.I.P
R.I.P
(thank you Mellow)
It’s important not to romanticise.
When I was a boy, my granddad used to tell me of his disgust at the recruiting bands parading around that August of 1914, large numbers of young guys rushing to join the march behind the bands to the recruiting office. There was a very heady atmosphere in which people rushed to slaughter. At the time, he called it ‘the Shah’s March to Bu ggery’.
He was living in Whitley bay at the time, and my grandma said she saw a German Dachshund kicked to death. There were mob attacks on German shops, and anti-war protesters like my granddad were in real danger.
The slaughter was horrific – it affected civilians as well as soldiers. Civilians have been increasingly caught up in this butchery ever since – witness Syria, Gaza and Ukraine today.
I commemorate the suffering, not the ‘heroism’ – most of the poor so ds who drowned in the mud weren’t heroes at all, just ordinary Joes not knowing what happened to them. The most realistic account from one of the soldiers at Passchendaele is David Jones’ In Memoriam – a chilling account of the Somme where the human cost is drawn brilliantly.
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