I was asked today why my poppy was red and not white. The answer is simple really. They died so that we could be free and I deeply respect and appreciate that and cannot fathom those who do not. RELATED POST: ANZAC Day: Lest we Forget or Have we Already?
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ANZAC Day: Lest we Forget or Have we Already?
April 25th, 2009 8 Comments
In ‘MCMXIV’ Philip Larkin describes the queues to enlist at the start of the first World War: The crowns of hats, the sun On moustached archaic faces Grinning as if it were all An August Bank Holiday lark His late-century comment was “Never such innocence again.” When I read these words in Jonathan Glover’s Humanity […]
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