Category Archives: War

GUNGA DIN by Rudyard Kipling

November 11, 2023 – 8:33 pm

When I was a young boy, I loved the movie GUNGA DIN. The hero was an outcast water-boy. The lowest of the low in the ranks of the British Empire, but Rudyard Kipling recognized their worth to a man dying of thirst and wrote the following poem. GUNGA DIN BY RUDYARD KIPLING You may talk […]

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NOVEMBER 11, 1978 – JOURNAL ENTRY – EAST VILLAGE

November 11, 2023 – 10:35 am

Kenya, the River Platte, Flanders Vienna, Istanbul, Berlin Versus Moscow, London, and Paris 1914 to 1918 An assassination in Sarajevo to the Treaty of Versailles World War I Machine guns, trenches, blood Airplanes, Zeppelins, blood Gas, barbed wire, blood Death in a thousand fields Verdun Gallipoli Tannenburg Emperors’ armies Nations’ will Men’s blood Victory and […]

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Last Shot of WWI

November 11, 2023 – 8:14 am

Last night in Charlotte NC Barack Obama spoke about ending the war in Iraq. Our troops left that country in Dec 2011, but the USA maintains a large presence in Afghanistan. Only yesterday two soldiers were killed there. The president vowed to bring our troops home by 2014. VP Biden ended his speech with a […]

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FALLEN BUT NOT FORGOTTEN by Peter Nolan Smith

November 11, 2023 – 2:05 am

On November 11, 2011 I accompanied the British and the American ambassadors to the US military cemetery outside Luxembourg City. Luxembourg was a small duchy. I looked out the window of the Jaguar. The morning sun struggled to break through the low fog. It would have little success on that day as it had at […]

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11-11-11

November 11, 2023 – 1:18 am

On the 11th minute of 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 a permanent ceasefire was called along the Eastern and Western fronts, although troops continued to shoot at each other for several hours after the armistice ended the 4-year global conflict. 11-11-11 occurs once a century. Someone in the armistice […]

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