It's been a bad year for World War I veterans. A few months ago I stumbled across one of those articles that make Wikipedia such an amazing resource, a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving_veterans_of_World_War_I"listing/a the survivors of the Great War. There were seven at the time, but with the death of a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/5907316/Private-Harry-Patch.html"Harry Patch/a, the last surviving British soldier, that number is down to three.br /br /This is an ignorant question, but at the time of the war were Canadians British subjects? I'm wondering if a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Babcock"Jack Babcock/a is still in the running for a Westminster Abbey funeral. br /br / THE OLD MEN ADMIRING THEMSELVES IN THE WATERbr /br /br / I HEARD the old, old men say,br / 'Everything alters,br / And one by one we drop away.'br / They had hands like claws, and their kneesbr / Were twisted like the old thorn-treesbr / By the waters.br / 'All that's beautiful drifts awaybr / Like the waters.'br /br / Yeatsdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7163938-7127363576192020524?l=lefarkins.blogspot.com'//div
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Epitaphs of the Great War
It's been a bad year for World War I veterans. A few months ago I stumbled across one of those articles that make Wikipedia such an amazing resource, a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving_veterans_of_World_War_I"listing/a the survivors of the Great War. There were seven at the time, but with the death of a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/5907316/Private-Harry-Patch.html"Harry Patch/a, the last surviving British soldier, that number is down to three.br /br /This is an ignorant question, but at the time of the war were Canadians British subjects? I'm wondering if a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Babcock"Jack Babcock/a is still in the running for a Westminster Abbey funeral. br /br / THE OLD MEN ADMIRING THEMSELVES IN THE WATERbr /br /br / I HEARD the old, old men say,br / 'Everything alters,br / And one by one we drop away.'br / They had hands like claws, and their kneesbr / Were twisted like the old thorn-treesbr / By the waters.br / 'All that's beautiful drifts awaybr / Like the waters.'br /br / Yeatsdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7163938-7127363576192020524?l=lefarkins.blogspot.com'//div
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