Return of the Rev
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What will you be doing at 11am?
Buzzer, you are perpetuating it yourself....
Will you suggest the meeting pauses at 11.00am for a moment of quiet reflection to respect the 100 year anniversary and remember those who gave their lives?I'll be in a meeting.
Will you suggest the meeting pauses at 11.00am for a moment of quiet reflection to respect the 100 year anniversary and remember those who gave their lives?
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.—
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
I'm livid, everyone took part in a two minutes silence, ending their calls or stop working. Apart from one bloke approaching his 50's continued tapping away while the whole office sat in silence. I'm probably more angry than I should be, but how hard can it be to take part.
I'm livid, everyone took part in a two minutes silence, ending their calls or stop working. Apart from one bloke approaching his 50's continued tapping away while the whole office sat in silence. I'm probably more angry than I should be, but how hard can it be to take part.
Don't be livid, it's his choice. It's not compulsory and I hope never is.