UPDATE TO: Veteran's Day
posted by The Vidiot @ 4:41 PM Permalink
skippy said it better than I can ... before the war.
Monkeyfister said it better than I can ... yesterday.
Poets who said it better than I can:
The Last of the Light BrigadeSong writers who said it better than I can:
In Flanders Field
Dulce Et Decorum Est
And my friend SteveAudio reminded me of Stephen Crane's
War Is Kind And Other Lines
War 3:20 Edwin StarrMy humble offering:
Talking Old Soldiers 4:06 Elton John
Masters of War 3:24 Judy Collins
When we send our men and women to die for us, people who volunteered to die in a just cause, we are honor bound to tell them the truth and make sure the cause is truly just.
We are honor bound to equip them as best we can afford.
We are honor bound to take care of their families while they serve, and especially while they are deployed.
We are honor bound to take care of them when they come home.
No matter how they come home, whether it is only as memories, remains, wounded or relatively whole.
We are honor bound to our veterans, and if we sever those bonds we've sacrificed our children and our honor.
2 Comments:
Amen, brother!
Well said.
And Stephen Crane said it, too:
Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.
Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky
And the affrighted steed ran on alone,
Do not weep.
War is kind.
Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment,
Little souls who thirst for fight,
These men were born to drill and die.
The unexplained glory flies above them,
Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom --
A field where a thousand corpses lie.
Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.
Because your father tumbled in the yellow trenches,
Raged at his breast, gulped and died,
Do not weep.
War is kind.
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