- RT @BKArms RT @ReenitRT @LAcontractorMA : Thank you to all the military veterans out there > #HonorVets #
- shall pass some time with shisensho while waiting for the melatonin to kick in. #
- RT @TFAW In thanks to our veterans, everything is at least 20% off today, plus free domestic shipping on $20+ http://bit.ly/3cfnzN #
- RT @formatted_dad (et al) Obama shows respect in a mosque – but at a Catholic university all religious symbols must be hidden #
- RT @Bowen12 Thank you Veterans, for your sacrifice to allow us the freedom we have. #
- RT @stevende1950 "Soldiers are citizens of death’s gray land, drawing no dividends on time’s tomorrows" Siegfried Sassoon #
- RT @BKArms Veterans Day:A Day to Honor and Remember our Bravest. Thank you all who serve & have served! #
- At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month: http://wp.me/poDCC-91 #
- RT @spurs Thank you veterans and all the active service men and women! #GoSpursGo http://flic.kr/p/7eYjir (Yes! Thanks Vets & Go Spurs Go!) #
- @Stimpdawg Ut oh… this doesn't sound good. Hope things get all better really soon! in reply to Stimpdawg #
- is listening to Spurs pregame on local AM radio, hating Mark Cuban and his foul-mouthed wife, hoping we win http://ping.fm/fvF5d #
- Cool. Now I'm flooding my twitter stream as well as my facebook friends. Go Spurs Go! via http://www.nba.com/Spurs/index.html #
- Cool. Now I'm flooding my twitter stream as well as my facebook friends. Go Spurs Go! #
- What? WHAT!? The Ref was blind! via http://www.nba.com/Spurs/index.html #
- What? WHAT!? The Ref was blind! #
- RJ! My man! via http://www.nba.com/Spurs/index.html #
- RJ! My man! #
- Manu! via http://www.nba.com/Spurs/index.html #
- Manu! #
- RJ! Woh! Power player! via http://www.nba.com/Spurs/index.html #
- RJ! Woh! Power player! #
- Hey, Nwitzki, STFU! via http://www.nba.com/Spurs/index.html #
- Hey, Nwitzki, STFU! #
- At the half, even w/o Tim & Tony, we lead the bad guys: Spurs51 – Mavs 38 via http://www.nba.com/Spurs/index.html #
- At the half, even w/o Tim & Tony, we lead the bad guys: Spurs51 – Mavs 38 #
- Oops, sorry everybody. Looks like I've been hitting y'all twice as badly as I thought I might. #
- @mdeleon Yeah. I'll take it too.
in reply to mdeleon # - @stevende1950 I don't know about Bible prophecy, Steve, but you know I trust Netenyahu way more than I do O, (or any U.S. politician). in reply to stevende1950 #
- after 3 qtrs,. even w/o Tim & Tony, were beating the bad guys 79-64. Go us! http://htxt.it/mwyH #
- RT @WeRushDaily (et al) if you believe the United Nations has outlived its usefulness. //Can we please RT this 1000 times??? #
- Woohoo! Even with out Tim and Tony, we beat the bad guys! Spurs 92- Mavs 83. Ha! http://ping.fm/5JCHD #
- @twistyspinster looks great, Andrea. Your taste and skills are excellent, as always. in reply to twistyspinster #
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Siegfried Sassoon is my favorite war poet. He was a Scot in the trenches who stayed on the frontlines except when the seriousness of his wounds forced evacuation to the rear for treatment, then reurned immediately to the front.
As we know, from studying WWI, his battlefields were mud-soaked, corpse-littered, artillery-plowed hells, crawling with rats and vermin, the unavoidable hail of machine gun bullets everywhere. It was indeed “death’s gray land” and death was both ubiquitous and random.
It’s interesting to see the long body of Sassoon’s poetry evolve from optimistic patriotism, to grim determination, to an almost Dantesque or Breughelesque accounting of the dark hell into which his generation was plunged.
I have no patience whatever with antiwar pussies who carry signs and chirp slogans into the indifferent sky. But I have the utmost respect for the soldier who crawls or staggers out of a cordite-stinking meatgrinder, dragging his rifle with emptied magazine and bloody bayonet behind him, having had enough…at least, for now.
Posted 13 Nov 2009 at 03:19 ¶