Posted on 07/01/2016 3:59:22 AM PDT by naturalman1975
That’s how the Tsar’s army looked at it; they’d endured misery for three years, facing all of the Central Powers, before they finally cracked...
"A whole generation that was butchered and damned."
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Never has a comedy provided such a tear-jerking moment....
Black Adder Goes Forth Ending
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH3-Gt7mgyM
Yes - a very moving scene. I use it with my students.
One of them did that...the rest waited for the proper time.
The idiot who jumped the gun did so to get his name/unit in The Times.
The Irish are an odd group. My wife’s people from Cork are rebellious and would be considered socialists with the belief in group over the individual. But what’s really funny is that they don’t want anybody BUT the Irish to tell them what to do. Hahahah.
Nice; could you imagine serving in the Russian army during that war? Money bought rank, and merit played little role in it...
Imagine that...I hope he isn’t as well remembered as the officers who kicked the soccer balls towards the German lines to lead off their unit’s charge...
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