The War to end all wars

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Preceding articles:

Reflections on the Great War #1 100 years on

Reflections on the Great War #2

Too Young To Fight?

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

Lessons of the Somme

The Somme (1916) Working Class Holocaust

July 4, 1916 – Battle of the Somme greeted with ‘the greatest enthusiasm’

Gwalia military cemetery

Truth

A poem for #Somme100 

Remembering the Somme 100 years on

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Additional reading

1. All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting… George Orwell
2. Parade’s End and Saint Flora Castle
3. 1914 – 2014 preparations
4. 11 November, a day to remember #1 Until Industrialisation
5. 11 November, a day to remember #2 From the Industrialisation
6. Mons 2014 remembering the Great War
7. Liège 2014 remembering the Great War
8. August 4, 1914 to be remembered
9. Honouring hundreds of thousands of victims of the brutal Somme battle
10. Ulster Tower ceremony for the Irish at the Somme battle
11. Aftermath
12. Juncker warns for possible new war

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Related reading

1. Your Land
2. The Awakening of Humanity: An End to War … by Alice ..
3. 1776: Independence for Some
4. On this day
5. July 1, 2016: The Somme Centennial
6. July 1, 1916, The Battle of the Somme: General Haig’s Murderous “Great Push Forward”
7. Monday 3rd July 1916
8. Reader’s Corner: Tolkien on the Battlefield
9. 4th of July , fireworks .
10. A 4th of July Message to u.$. Imperialism!
11. Mark Collins – “The Lord of the Rings’” Origin at the Bloody Somme
12. Tuesday 4th July 1916
13. WWI Parade on St.Neots Market Square
14. Wednesday 5th July 1916
15. Richmond WW1 Diary 5 July 1916
16. Last soldier standing
17. A wall to honor the victims of abortion would be 85 miles long…
18. It is Time to Partition Bosnia: Not for the Politicians, but for the People
19. Why are we killing?
20. Countries established by the peace conference at Paris
21. GU Treaty Officer starts war peace-talks between Iceandor and the Russian Remnant
22. Aleppo soap
23. An attack in the 2nd holiest site in Islam is a wake up call for everyone.
24. Shocking new report: Bombing people causes people to hate you
25. Do not go gentle into that good night
26. The War Is On, The War Is Won…
27. Vietnam Vision
28. Poems to a Libyan Girl
29. Is Tony Blair a War Criminal?
30. How the Taliban and the US fell out of love
31. Israel hits Syrian army after errant shells land near border
32. Uganda’s president (Nigger Freemason) declares: Israel was right to carry out Entebbe raid

My Poetry

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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