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@toybulldog wrote:
I meant to put a deeply significant look on my face, but the phone rang and so it was business as usual. Which is a shame as the poets of the Great War carry more meaning than 99% of any artistic creation since.
At the time cosy is talking about I was prodding a sausage roll with a fork that hadn’t been washed up properly.
(thought I’d share that . . . . )
w.owen,
sommeDulce et decorum est, pro patria mori ..
Did Owen fight on the Somme – not sure he did.
Anyway I’d been to the hospital so Im afraid I sat in the car park (in my car of course) and observed the 2 minutes silence.
2 mins silence
what does it really mean
do we all feel humble and decent for doing itand what was you thinking during that 2 mins
do you think our poor soldiers serving around the globe had chance for 2 mins silence
i bet not
they would most likely have had their heads blown off if they did@thin ice wrote:
2 mins silence
what does it really mean
do we all feel humble and decent for doing itand what was you thinking during that 2 mins
do you think our poor soldiers serving around the globe had chance for 2 mins silence
i bet not
they would most likely have had their heads blown off if they didI think 2 minutes reflection in an entire year, is not too much to ask …
I was personally thinking about loved ones who serve(d)
Forgive me for being old fashioned enough to give a f u c k :evil:
@simplysu wrote:
@toybulldog wrote:
I meant to put a deeply significant look on my face, but the phone rang and so it was business as usual. Which is a shame as the poets of the Great War carry more meaning than 99% of any artistic creation since.
At the time cosy is talking about I was prodding a sausage roll with a fork that hadn’t been washed up properly.
(thought I’d share that . . . . )
w.owen,
sommeDulce et decorum est, pro patria mori ..
Indeed.
and blonde, you’re probably right . . . . . .’Craiglockhart’ would have been so much better.
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