And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Monday, January 25, 2021
Highlanders and Dogras in a trench, 1915. Fauquissart, France.
In amongst all the horror stories about families losing fathers, brothers and sons I realise how lucky my great grandparents were. They had ten children, of whom I know one was a piper and stretcherbearer in the Royal Scots, one was in the Royal Scots Greys and my grandad was on a destroyer at the Battle of Jutland: everyone came home.
Wonder if any made it to 1919?
ReplyDeleteIn amongst all the horror stories about families losing fathers, brothers and sons I realise how lucky my great grandparents were. They had ten children, of whom I know one was a piper and stretcherbearer in the Royal Scots, one was in the Royal Scots Greys and my grandad was on a destroyer at the Battle of Jutland: everyone came home.
ReplyDeleteThose forgotten heroes from a forgotten war
ReplyDeleteAnd their ghosts can be heard as they march by the billibong
Who'll come a-Waltzing Matilda with me?
AMEN!
Great song, got it on my phone.
DeleteBoth my Grandfathers were in the Drop-Shorts in WW1. Paternal in Australian and Maternal in British. Both came back, but not the full quid.
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