[SOC] poetry corner

[Ian C. Purdie]

Lloyd Lachow wrote:

> The Cricketers of Flanders

Thanks for that Lloyd. I'd never heard it before.

I'd have an old friend from WW11 who was also a top cricketer and he did it
once too often, the grenade exploded as it left his hand causing him to lose
his right arm in 1941.

He always boasts "never done a days work in my life son". He hasn't.

Bill finished his final High School exams in November 1939. The whole class
walked out the door and straight down to the recruiting depot - bloody fools.

Bill has spent 1941 to the present as a disabled veteran pensioner.

Half his class never came back, 25% were mutilated and the rest mentally
scarred for life.

Ever told you I absolutely hate war?

>From a little kid I've lived with the consequences all around me, old fellows
from WW1 then cousins and father in WW11, later Korea [brother], Malaya
[another brother] then Vietnam with another cousin seriously wounded, now
Afghanistan last year for a nephew in the SAS and presently somewhere in Iraq.

"Politicians start wars but never go to them"


72/73's

Ian C. Purdie
Budgewoi N.S.W. Australia - Co-ords S33�14', E151�34'
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