True Remembrance

By well-wisher

Sun, 11 Nov 2012
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Remember wicked lies were told;
remember lives were bought and sold;
that young men, who now won’t grow old,
died to fill rich men’s hands with gold.
Remember now the slaughtered youth
and that they did, for nothing, fall;
for once you’ve forgotten the truth
then, truly, you’ve forgotten all.

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Submitted by jolono on
Nice words WW on this special day.

 

Submitted by well-wisher on
Thanks, jolono. I have ancestors, on my mothers side who fought in the Boer War and The First World War but I think there's plenty of historical evidence to show how the rich and powerful have needlessly sacrificed the lives of the poor. I'm not talking about WW2 (although much of that was a war to preserve The British Empire) but practically every other war that has ever been fought seems to have been fought for the benefit of a ruling elite and at the expense of ordinary people.

Oh look, a link. I wonder where it leads.

JoHn