” . . .cheer the soldiers who’d refrained from dying . . .” Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) Fight to the Finish fr. Counter-Attack and Other Poems. 1918. Please follow and like us:
Perhaps the best day to consider this . . . “No nominee for president should ever fail in the midst of a war to pay tribute to our troops overseas in his acceptance speech....
”But the past is just the same,—and War’s a bloody game. . . . Have you forgotten yet? . . . Look down, and swear by the slain of the War that you’ll never...