I have been dreading this post. I honestly thought that I could leave it until the eve of Remembrance Sunday. It seems not. My heart is breaking for the lost soldiers, 5 of ours 8 of theirs. Sorry, but that is how I feel about it.
Trying to think about politics but to be honest I am just angry.
Brown is an accountant, not a leader. Yeah, harsh words but true ones. Get off your Ass Brown and give our guys the kit and support they need. Not just in the field, but when they come home with serious physical and psychological injuries. As a 'Forces Brat', I enjoyed fantastic health care, right up to the birth of my second son, who is now 3 days short of his 22nd birthday. All the forces Hospitals that I knew as a child and a young woman are now closed.
The names Obama and Osama sit badly with me. What is the difference? Apparently, we are waiting for Obama to give us 'the nod'. Why?
We need to stand up for our troops, support them, give them what they need and stop being pulled around by powers that think they know better than us. We have the history, we have the know how and we need to stand up and be counted.
We may be a small Island but we have the knowledge and true grit to show others the way.
An emotive post, I know, but I am passionate in the belief that with our support our troops will win through, whatever the politics. We are the best and the most heartened and always will be.
Leaving you tonight with a poem from Rupert Brooke. I read a lot of his stuff before he went to war and he was 'happy'. Shame I cannot find it on the net. I still have my treasured volume of a young man going to war.
Brown is an accountant, not a leader. Yeah, harsh words but true ones. Get off your Ass Brown and give our guys the kit and support they need. Not just in the field, but when they come home with serious physical and psychological injuries. As a 'Forces Brat', I enjoyed fantastic health care, right up to the birth of my second son, who is now 3 days short of his 22nd birthday. All the forces Hospitals that I knew as a child and a young woman are now closed.
The names Obama and Osama sit badly with me. What is the difference? Apparently, we are waiting for Obama to give us 'the nod'. Why?
We need to stand up for our troops, support them, give them what they need and stop being pulled around by powers that think they know better than us. We have the history, we have the know how and we need to stand up and be counted.
We may be a small Island but we have the knowledge and true grit to show others the way.
An emotive post, I know, but I am passionate in the belief that with our support our troops will win through, whatever the politics. We are the best and the most heartened and always will be.
Leaving you tonight with a poem from Rupert Brooke. I read a lot of his stuff before he went to war and he was 'happy'. Shame I cannot find it on the net. I still have my treasured volume of a young man going to war.
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
Muse x
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