[I cannot think of a name]

Unfortunately, in a combat situation this is usually revised to read:

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

you probably have no idea how many guns are currently aimed at you.

[Gaffer]

This brings to mind a movie called “Operation Petticoat”.....the Captain (Grant, I think) was stuck with a bunch of nurses in the opening days of WWII and was running from the Japs (Japanese). He had a playboy “scrounger” (Tony Curtis) who was the supply officer.

When they were back at port stocking up and making ready to run from the Japs, they attacked and started bombing....during the attack the captain asked where Curtis was. The deck hand said something like “I dunno, sir. When they started the attack Ensign (Curtis) lit outta here in a deuce and a half yelling something about ‘in confusion there is profit’.....”

[JRandomFreeper]

I memorized more Kipling than any other poet when I was a child. Mother put a stop to that nonsense when she found out.

/johnny

[NonValueAdded]

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you have probably misread the situation.

[JennysCool]

ALWAYS great to read! Thanks, CW!

[Berlin_Freeper]

Can we start at the beginning again?

If you can...

[MestaMachine]

There is, as G-d is my Witness, hardly a day that goes by that I don’t hearken to this poem and mention it just as often to friends.
Looking around at the pandemic of insanity in this world, I wonder sometimes how some of us manage to stay sane...if we actually do. And sometimes I even wonder if I am really sane or if I just hope I am.

[stayathomemom]

This is one of the poems my fifth grade teacher made us memorize. Great teacher. Detroit Public Schools, 1967.