01-26-2006, 07:09 AM
Quote:Greetings,One war? Could be.. This was my interpretation though:
I like that poem, all fighting the same war (I believe) but from a different viewpoint.
1st soul: Middle Ages, Germans (Teuton knights) attack Russia
2nd soul: Habsburg wars
3rd soul: Napoleon
4th soul: WW1
5thsoul: WW2 (BEF)
Quote:I remember my grandfather telling me about the ceasefires and some of the 'nice blokes' they met, that they knew they may have to kill the next day. He was in the Royal or Horse Artillery, but I don't remember where he was except for Macedonia and fighting 'Red Cossaks'.Battlefield fraternisation is the general's nightmare. Remember the Christmas ceasfire in WW1, 1914? It was forbidden and never happened again.
Quote:He told me about finding a tortoise in Macedonia he kept as a pet, can't remember what happened to it.Reminds me of Dan Peterson's monitor lizard he brought from Iraq..
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
