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Young Men Walking to Their Death
Ninety- six years ago, my step-grandfather stepped out with thousands of other young men on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. It was the first of July, 1916. He was a north countryman from...
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Culture, History, Glamour and Beauty
There’s a mysterious magic in some names and places, names like The Akhond of Swat, places like The Forbidden City, Venice, Timbuctoo or Mandalay. Sadly as the world has shrunk, and tourism has tainted...
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“Old soldiers …”
Leafing through an old notebook looking for a blank page to pull out to write a shopping list, I found these words I’d forgotten I’d written. Timing isn’t always everything I decided, and though I’m...
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War-time and Peace-time
A life – part five Adults talked of ‘War-time’ and ‘Before the War’, and ‘When Peace-time comes’. I couldn’t imagine what Peace-time was like, since it had always been War-time for as long as I...
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Take a knee
“Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” Said Henry Kissinger. I had thought of these callous words when I copied the food for thought in my last post: “The...
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Another day, another search through news headlines, Youtube videos, TV news, on the spot reports, to find some hope that the war will end, that right will triumph over might. Wion, and BBC, Caspian...
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