THE CURMUDGEON
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I stumbled upon this 'booklet' while searching for something else: https://wellington.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/4131#idx7278 ... -
A song caught my attention today. It was Get Together by The Youngbloods. I remember listening to this when at school - 6th form in ... -
I've probably got the worst lawn in our street but, because the front of the property is a steep slope covered in flax, native shrubs an...
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Nice sentiment old fella.
Yeah well ....... hope it goes well for you today bugle boy.
"That courage faith and honour will stand where heroes fall?".
Sounds like the author was struggling for a rhyme.
The pot calling the kettle black.
No I just think we get carried away with sentiments when the truth is that the soldiers would have laughed at all this on their walk to the barbed wire and guns.
Come on Rod, you can't possibly believe that. These young guys would have been terrified. They were probably crying and shitting themselves.
My namesake, great uncle Peter Prendergast (my mother named me 'Peter' after him) was hell bent on getting the VC.
He was a sergeant and won the Military Medal ( officers would get the military cross and then later won it again getting a 'bar' to go with the MM. He was a larrikin to be sure but was apparently very brave. He attacked a machine gun nest head on and was mown down in October 1918 in France. See: https://grumpyoldmanreturnsnz.blogspot.com/2014/11/in-name-of-great-uncle.html
No doubt that the line of the poem would have suited him.
On the other hand, in keeping with your comment, a great uncle on my father's side of the family was killed at Gallipoli on 27 April 1915. I don't know what he would have been thinking but am sure it would have been along the lines of .... "Fuck me, what are we doing here?"
I'm with Richard on this one.
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