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Never Forget.
Great idea for a thread.
My own "Mever Forget" having riden on a bus past the Cenotaph in London today, is to never forget the conscript armies of all wars.
Those men, and women, who were called up all over the world, and killed for wars that they didn't ask for, and often didn't support.
The "glorious dead" is a phrase that appears on many memorials in this country, and I always shudder. They are not glorious, but they are dead.
We should never forget their coerced sacrifice in conflicts that with hindsight were wrong.
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Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air,
And deep beneath the rolling waves,
In labyrinths of Coral Caves,
The Echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand;
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