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Beneath these serried crosses
fifty-thousand soldiers lie: -
it can’t in any way detract, in deed or history,
from the valour and endurance of that brave B Company. -
The guns are silent now; they’ve shot
and loosed their latest round -
We’re warring still and daily counting young lives that are lost.
and as long as politicians rule the world, we mourn the cost. -
So, moving ‘mongst your graves with solemn tread,
we say farewell and thanks, with unbowed head. -
‘Tis morning on the eleventh of November
when men, awaking, mark Armistice Day -
the Nippon empire, four years later, met apocalypse.
Unconditional surrender followed lost ascendancy. -
May we, whose liberties and freedoms stem
from their bequest, always remember them. -
May we, whose liberties and freedoms stem
from their bequest, always remember them. -
it can’t in any way detract, in deed or history,
from the valour and endurance of that brave B Company. -
Beneath these serried crosses
fifty-thousand soldiers lie: -
We’re warring still and daily counting young lives that are lost.
and as long as politicians rule the world, we mourn the cost. -
the Nippon empire, four years later, met apocalypse.
Unconditional surrender followed lost ascendancy. -
The guns are silent now; they’ve shot
and loosed their latest round -
So, moving ‘mongst your graves with solemn tread,
we say farewell and thanks, with unbowed head. -
‘Tis morning on the eleventh of November
when men, awaking, mark Armistice Day -
It’s ANZAC Day when we who live, with bared but unbowed head, / remember those who died for us, the great and glorious dead.
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Kiwis and Wars – Wyleian Sonnet CXCIV / New Zealand soldiers fought for Britain first against the Boers / and then against Germanic forces
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If Christian men and women simply “turn the other cheek”,
the terrorists will triumph and annihilate the weak. -
It’s ANZAC Day but here we are, engaged in yet another war.
If we could only turn time back, would our youth now be in Iraq? -
Let those who would deny these horrors contemplate the facts.
The evidence is clear attesting to these ghastly acts. -
I heard the bugler sound his sad lament -
soft breaths at first then swelling to the last.by catz 31 lines, 13 comments, on Mar 12 4:48 AM
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In trenches deep with mud and slush each side of no-man’s land,
begrimed, unwashed, both weary teams took their accustomed stand. -
We, who are left behind,
should bear their loss in mind. -
"I’m a British fighter pilot, Squadron 19/RAF.
I hope that You are listening God. I know that You’re not deaf." -
God grant that they died quickly, free of agony or fear.
We know at least they were released from all their worldly care. -
At Antietam near Sharpsburg stands a three-span limestone bridge
in a valley underneath some bluffs which form a sort of ridge. -
In Flanders fields red poppies grow.
I’ve read somewhere that this is so
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