Showing posts with label war memorials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label war memorials. Show all posts
Friday, November 11, 2011
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Wednesday, November 09, 2011
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Tuesday, September 06, 2011
Monday, May 30, 2011
Friday, November 12, 2010
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
How Much do we Think about our War Dead?
Aftermath
Have you forgotten yet?...
For the world's events have rumbled on since those gagged days,
Like traffic checked a while at the crossing of city ways:
And the haunted gap in your mind has filled with thoughts that flow
Like clouds in the lit heavens of life; and you're a man reprieved to go,
Taking your peaceful share of Time, with joy to spare.
But the past is just the same—and War's a bloody game...
Have you forgotten yet?...
Look down, and swear by the slain of the War that you'll never forget.
Do you remember the dark months you held the sector at Mametz—
The nights you watched and wired and dug and piled sandbags on parapets?
Do you remember the rats; and the stench
Of corpses rotting in front of the front-line trench—
And dawn coming, dirty-white, and chill with a hopeless rain?
Do you ever stop and ask, 'Is it all going to happen again?'
Do you remember that hour of din before the attack—
And the anger, the blind compassion that seized and shook you then
As you peered at the doomed and haggard faces of your men?
Do you remember the stretcher-cases lurching back
With dying eyes and lolling heads—those ashen-gray
Masks of the lads who once were keen and kind and gay?
Have you forgotten yet?...
Look up, and swear by the slain of the war that you'll never forget!
March 1919.
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
See also the excellent poem here.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Memorial Day. Semper Fi.
Great story on NPR's Morning Edition yesterday by Daniel Robison of WFIU Bloomington about WW2 vets being flown to DC to see the WW2 Memorial there.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Monday, May 25, 2009
Monday, January 05, 2009
The Song Remains the Same
Story is here at the NY Times. It was Wilfred Owen, killed in the final week of World War One, who called the Horace line 'the old lie'. Picture below is from the Times story; quote is from Hemmingway's story "A Natural History of the Dead".
Monday, November 24, 2008
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