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Lest we forget them ....

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neilh
neilh
25 Mar 2012 22:28

70th Anniversary of Battle of St. Nazaire

Don Pearson
Don Pearson
26 Mar 2012 21:04

Poppies

(For Liam O’Neill and in memory of my grandparents)

The poppy’s capsule oozes juice

That brings us sleep, helps ease our pain.

On one more continent the seeds

Are mixed with dust and blood as we

Forget that we must not forget.

The poppies bloom, their beauty fades,

Their petals scatter on the ground

In Flanders or in Afghan fields.

While poppies weep their latex tears,

We plant our flowers once again.

neilh
neilh
26 Mar 2012 21:46

poignant

neilh
neilh
27 Mar 2012 10:47

Have just read a salutary account of a Luftwaffe pilot whose body was washed up on the beach at Dawlish on 13th January 1943. He had been shot down three days earlier during the bombing raid on Teignmouth. He was buried with full military honours in a war grave in Exeter cemetery.

R.I.P. Feldwebel Joachim von Bitter, age 20

Six weeks later the British pilot who had shot him down was killed whilst on a similar foray in France. His body was recovered and he too was buried with full military honours at the Le Folgoet district cemetery, close to Brest.

R.I.P. Flight Lieutenant John Small

Pro Patria Mori ..... what a waste war was, is and ever shall be.

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