Posted on 04/02/2014 6:55:16 AM PDT by C19fan
It was more of a comment about the world stage then the Poles.
“The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow’r,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,
Awaits alike th’inevitable hour.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”
Thomas Gray [excerpt] — “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
“Bit weird at first,
That starey look in the eyes,
The hair down past his shoulders,
But after a go with the ship’s barber,
A sea-water shower and the old slouch hat
Across his ears, he started to look the part.
Took him a while to get the way
A bayonet fits the old Lee-Enfield,
...
He was off like a flash, up the cliffs,
After his first machine gun.
He’d done for three Turks when we got there,
The fourth was a gibbering mess.
Seeing him wave that blood-red bayonet,
I reckoned we were glad
To have him on the side.”
Geof Page [excerpt] - Christ at Gallipoli
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae [excerpt] - In Flanders field.
OK, no more Polish jokes! They seem to be the only country thinking ahead, and that includes the US.
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