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  • The poor man seemed to have died happily without the administration of the last rites. It is the poor priest whois inmortal conflict at his derilitionof duty. A case of the flesh being willing but the spirit weak in this converse.

  • Nothing of honour and glory. Just an exhortation to the inconsequence of his possible passing, as important as a feather falling from the sky. Who would mourn his passing? Only perhaps some chance acquaintance of Kiltartan.

  • on The Rear-Guard by Siegfried Sassoon, on May 10, 2007
    Difficult to imagine a more horiffic poem exalting the `glories of war` It is things like this that veterans remember, and seldom speak of, while the people at home remember only the victory and the waving of flags.

  • A brave act for a serving oficer to comit. He could have been charged with mutiny or even treason. As it was it passod off quite uneventfully while the war (and casualties) lasted for a further three months.