tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post5207711546401493454..comments2024-03-23T09:59:53.293+00:00Comments on LINEN ON THE HEDGEROW: In Flanders the poppies were red...let's keep them that wayRichard Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10826907710570316952noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-25559299147093897722011-11-23T08:09:54.579+00:002011-11-23T08:09:54.579+00:00Expat - Gosh.Expat - Gosh.Richard Collinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10826907710570316952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-71883570479826794592011-11-22T22:07:35.665+00:002011-11-22T22:07:35.665+00:00Believe whatever you want, Collins. I'm actual...Believe whatever you want, Collins. I'm actually studying history at the graduate level, going for the doctorate. I suspect I have a better grasp of it than you.The Expatriatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11762488684043664889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-91718789535164239562011-11-18T07:18:07.773+00:002011-11-18T07:18:07.773+00:00Ah Expatriate - how little you understand human de...Ah Expatriate - how little you understand human decency and recent history.<br />My own father hated the concept of war yet went, along with many others, to do his duty in an act of sacrifice. There was nothing glorious about it other than the selfless act.<br />Thankfully, despite spending most of the war in the trenches in the thick of it, he survived.Richard Collinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10826907710570316952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-59564098347690915392011-11-18T02:32:17.788+00:002011-11-18T02:32:17.788+00:00I have more respect for pacifists than I would for...I have more respect for pacifists than I would for people who went along with WWI, a useless conflict that accomplished little other than setting the stage for WWII.The Expatriatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11762488684043664889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-39831456211842347742011-11-07T09:58:17.079+00:002011-11-07T09:58:17.079+00:00My paternal great uncle-A Sussex farmer- was an of...My paternal great uncle-A Sussex farmer- was an officer in the BEF and he lost a leg in the Battle of the Somme.<br />all of my wife's great uncles-paternal and maternal- all vounteered in the aUSTRLAIAN IMPERIAL FORCE-the only Volunteer army in WW1.(68000 Aussies lie buried on french,turkish,egyptian and palestine soil and 168000 returned injured or with impairment)<br /> One was MIA at the Battle of Moquet Farm ,all the others returned. One took to the bush and remained a hermit tending cattle and sheep in the foothills of the Australian Alps<br /> I think of all of these men this Friday<br /> GOD BLESS THEM<br />LEST WE FORGETMatthiashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17802371400315851525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-19056595909277778212011-11-05T16:04:31.040+00:002011-11-05T16:04:31.040+00:00Great post. Beautiful poem.Great post. Beautiful poem.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09221322305605238111noreply@blogger.com