All these decades upon decades later, all the battles and suffering born by soldiers, sailors and airmen.........and still those who served and fought are not treated with the help they need.
@יונתן זנטון over here he's more of an absentee father. While I never faced the streets, I know many who did. On one hand I was lucky, I come from a family of military back 1000yrs and some so I never had to deal with coming back to a family that didn't understand the cost you still pay even after you leave service. In others I was not so lucky.
The modern insistence that we judge our ancestors using current standards cannot crush the beauty, wisdom and, indeed, relevance of one of the truly great poets of the English language.
Too bloody right. In 1918, it was a land fit for heroes, you know, tuberculosis, 10 to a room, no work ,no pay, just don't die on the street and inconvenience your 'betters'.It was so bad ,that in 1940, the germans couldn't believe how small and puny the Brits were. And it's still happening in Britain.
When the Boer War started many young men tried to join up to fight. I am sure I read that seven out of ten were not fit for service. This prompted a survey on the health of the nation. It was so poor due to industrialisation that the report was kept secret for seventy five years.
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This resonates painfully so for me. Some of us just need others to speak on any of the wonders we endure and feats we claim. Some of us can only listen to echoes of our thoughts on the lips of an other not the same. For news and word and parchment delivered through all matter of rain, I keep ears alight, head craned for word of change.
Kipling showed the cruelty of that world as it really was, no one took notice, but we cry century's later to those men. But still allow war to be glorified today, mothers loose children to Palimentarians who justify their sacrifice in the name of God. I find it shocking, war still exists.
"... to keep the wolf from the door ..." What was very wrong about all this in the first place, is that they travelled thousands of miles away from the doors of their homes to the bear's lair door to knock on it with their spears. And got the reception they deserved. Personally they were brave soldiers and heroes loyally serving their queen, but the cause they sacrificed their lives for was totally wrong.
Not though the soldier knew, Someone had blundered, Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die, Into the valley of death, Rode the 600
The light brigade were no theives. I won't pretend the British intervened in the Crimean War out of the goodness of their hearts but the Russians where the aggressors in that war. Furthermore on paper Britain got nothing out of it- or any of the blokes that had to fight through it except a pat on the back and another war to go fight.