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Preceding articles:
Reflections on the Great War #1 100 years on
Reflections on the Great War #2
Remembrance isn’t only about those who fought, but also those who refused
In Flanders Fields II – a new poem in response to the original
The Somme (1916) Working Class Holocaust
July 4, 1916 – Battle of the Somme greeted with ‘the greatest enthusiasm’
Remembering the Somme 100 years on
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Additional reading
- All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting… George Orwell
- Parade’s End and Saint Flora Castle
- 1914 – 2014 preparations
- 11 November, a day to remember #1 Until Industrialisation
- 11 November, a day to remember #2 From the Industrialisation
- Mons 2014 remembering the Great War
- Liège 2014 remembering the Great War
- August 4, 1914 to be remembered
- Honouring hundreds of thousands of victims of the brutal Somme battle
- Ulster Tower ceremony for the Irish at the Somme battle
- Aftermath
- Juncker warns for possible new war
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- The Awakening of Humanity: An End to War … by Alice ..
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- On this day
- July 1, 2016: The Somme Centennial
- July 1, 1916, The Battle of the Somme: General Haig’s Murderous “Great Push Forward”
- Monday 3rd July 1916
- Reader’s Corner: Tolkien on the Battlefield
- 4th of July , fireworks .
- A 4th of July Message to u.$. Imperialism!
- Mark Collins – “The Lord of the Rings’” Origin at the Bloody Somme
- Tuesday 4th July 1916
- WWI Parade on St.Neots Market Square
- Wednesday 5th July 1916
- Richmond WW1 Diary 5 July 1916
- Last soldier standing
- A wall to honor the victims of abortion would be 85 miles long…
- It is Time to Partition Bosnia: Not for the Politicians, but for the People
- Why are we killing?
- Countries established by the peace conference at Paris
- GU Treaty Officer starts war peace-talks between Iceandor and the Russian Remnant
- Aleppo soap
- An attack in the 2nd holiest site in Islam is a wake up call for everyone.
- Shocking new report: Bombing people causes people to hate you
- Do not go gentle into that good night
- The War Is On, The War Is Won…
- Vietnam Vision
- Poems to a Libyan Girl
- Is Tony Blair a War Criminal?
- How the Taliban and the US fell out of love
- Israel hits Syrian army after errant shells land near border
- Uganda’s president (Nigger Freemason) declares: Israel was right to carry out Entebbe raid
King George and Kaiser Bill did call
For men to stand up and be proud and tall
The volunteers queued all day
Not really knowing ahead what lay?
The crowds cheered and gave a wave
As the soldiers marched past feeling so brave
Marching off to war they went
Like lambs to the slaughter they were sent
Back at HQ the Generals stood
Hardly ever going near the mud
From Gallipoli in the east to the Somme in the west
They sent the orders out because they knew best
To fight a war on foreign soil
Every day giving blood, sweat, tears and toil
Waiting in the trenches full of mud
To be sent to no man’s land to spill their blood
And then the day finally came
When Kaiser Bill at last took the blame
The orders were sent out to end the kill
Then at the eleventh hour…
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