This excellent post by my old blogger friend C L Couch, aka Chris, who has been around in my blogosphere since the beginning… 2011… (I find this photo especially poignant because two of my mother’s uncles were Australian soldiers who were killed in action in France around the time this photo was taken…perhaps literally in a trench like this one.)
Photo by British Library on Unsplash 1914, World War 1. Highland Territorials in a trench. Photographer: H. D. Girdwood. La Gorgue, France
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Battle Cry
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The war goes on
I know war from
Reading
All Quiet on the Western Front
Johnny Got His Gun
The Red Badge of Courage
Funny war in
Catch-22
Romantic war in
Anything by Alistair MacLean
And
The Lord of the Rings
I’ve seen videos of
Hiroshima,
And I see images of Ukraine
All of which means
I don’t know anything about war
I don’t know the ripping pain
Of bullets
The sounds from
Many explosions
The sounds of people
Wounded
And the dying
All in states of dying
Mortal life leaving the body
Violent upheaval into judgment
All out of place
Before its time
An outrage of angels
Crying from all sides
The risen and the fallen
I hear stories
Read them
Hear them
Imagine them
And let them in
It’s not the real thing
But it’s something
Enough to think and…
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