As yearly, we shall remember.
Remembrance: Old Soldiers at the Cenotaph
The Bath chair or the Zimmer frame,
The agèd, gnarled, claw-like hand:
Was it to this that heroes came
In England’s green and pleasant land?
Do generations give just due
To those who faced the direst foe:
The Senior Service and the Few,
The BEF of long ago?
Burma - (Blenheim, Ramillies -),
The Mons Canal, El Alamein,
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The Bath chair or the Zimmer frame,
The agèd, gnarled, claw-like hand:
Was it to this that heroes came
In England’s green and pleasant land?
Do generations give just due
To those who faced the direst foe:
The Senior Service and the Few,
The BEF of long ago?
Burma - (Blenheim, Ramillies -),
The Mons Canal, El Alamein,
( Read more... )
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My husband was in the US Navy for 20 years. I got to see lots of old men. What I remember is the way that they watched us, younger men and women.
They were willing to talk, if I talked to them, and tell what ships they had been on, or what beaches they landed on. (Some were Marines.) But they restrained themselves, out of kindness, from saying too much.
Only the other old men really understood.
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