Our Company lost eleven men killed in the summer of 2009. A further two, who survived that tour, have died since then; one in Afghanistan in late 2011 and one by his own hand. It seems that Death is...
Posted by gnotalex on November 10, 2012 10:12 PM
I'd never given it much thought, but one day I wondered about the role of women poets in WWI. Poetry was considered a "proper" pursuit (as compared to, say, novel writing) for ladies of the time. There doesn't seem to...
Posted by gnotalex on November 10, 2011 7:09 PM
(For D.C.T., Killed at Fricourt, March 1916) Once an earlier David took Smooth pebbles from the brook: Out between the lines he went To that one-sided tournament, A shepherd boy who stood out fine And young to fight a Philistine...
Posted by gnotalex on November 10, 2009 8:50 PM
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