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Remembrance Sunday....Lest We forget
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Just a short tribute to all casualties of war. Please take a look. Lest we forget.
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Written by Archie Menzies, a British Soldier who served with the Royal Engineers from 1939-46.
CASUALTIES WERE LIGHT
Our attack was most successful,
We landed during the night,
Opposition met was feeble,
Our casualties were light.
Such is the kind of news we hear,
In broadcasts on the air,
The news announcer reads the words,
Without the slightest care.
But that attack included one,
Who perished in the fight,
Included was this soldier in
"Our casualties were light".
It happened as he stormed a post,
That held up our advance,
He died so that the main attack,
Would stand a better chance.
"Killed in Action", was the verdict,
His number, name and rank,
Are carved upon a wooden cross,
Beside a river bank. Laurence Binyon
His wife received a telegram,
Commencing "We regret",
And 'ere she finished reading it,
Her eyes with tears were wet.
Her husband gone, her future too,
Alone she has to fight
The world, yet she was told
"Our casualties were light".
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them. (Laurence Binyon)
Written by Archie Menzies, a British Soldier who served with the Royal Engineers from 1939-46.
CASUALTIES WERE LIGHT
Our attack was most successful,
We landed during the night,
Opposition met was feeble,
Our casualties were light.
Such is the kind of news we hear,
In broadcasts on the air,
The news announcer reads the words,
Without the slightest care.
But that attack included one,
Who perished in the fight,
Included was this soldier in
"Our casualties were light".
It happened as he stormed a post,
That held up our advance,
He died so that the main attack,
Would stand a better chance.
"Killed in Action", was the verdict,
His number, name and rank,
Are carved upon a wooden cross,
Beside a river bank. Laurence Binyon
His wife received a telegram,
Commencing "We regret",
And 'ere she finished reading it,
Her eyes with tears were wet.
Her husband gone, her future too,
Alone she has to fight
The world, yet she was told
"Our casualties were light".
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them. (Laurence Binyon)
I would have liked to be at the Cenotaph today, but i can't stand up for that long now, which is a terrible shame, but my heart goes out to all our brave servicemen and women, past and present. I would post Rupert Brooke's poem, but as it talks about a corner of a foreign field that is forever England, it leaves out all those who fought and died for Britain from far afield.
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Following Naomi;s ode, not many people know that he wrote the words to the poem, sitting at the base of the Pepperpot lighthouse in Portreath, here in Cornwall. The Pepperpot was a small "guiding" lighthouse to steer the boats home between the treacherous rocks off the North Shore....
There is a plaque at the base of the Pepperpot reflecting this fact.
Following Naomi;s ode, not many people know that he wrote the words to the poem, sitting at the base of the Pepperpot lighthouse in Portreath, here in Cornwall. The Pepperpot was a small "guiding" lighthouse to steer the boats home between the treacherous rocks off the North Shore....
There is a plaque at the base of the Pepperpot reflecting this fact.
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