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Sat Mar-26-05 09:42 PM
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Give It Up For The Soldiers Abroad This Easter?

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Dreamers

SOLDIERS are citizens of death's gray land,
Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows.
In the great hour of destiny they stand,
Each with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows.
Soldiers are sworn to action; they must win
Some flaming, fatal climax with their lives.
Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin
They think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.

I see them in foul dug-outs, gnawed by rats,
And in the ruined trenches, lashed with rain,
Dreaming of things they did with balls and bats,
And mocked by hopeless longing to regain
Bank-holidays, and picture shows, and spats,

- Siegfried Sassoon.

I let the lounge off of the hook but I'm gonna push GD a little harder. If this aging hippie can recognize, you folks can also.

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