ramblings and things
Perhaps those
Political Whores
Shoud go and fight
Their own wars.
It's too easy for a REMF, from
The safety of his planners seat,
To lay down a Code of Conduct
To be applied in a battle's heat:
Tommy Atkins at the sharp end
May give all he has to give
But a soldier's basic instinct
Must be the will to live.
Those safely at the rear
Must have a duty of care
And consideration for those
Who survived being sent there.
After service a veteran knows
That prevalent attitude
That tosses him on the scrap heap
With little or no sense of gratitude.
Every single one of us
Conscripted or willing
Accepted the conditions of
Taking our Sovereign's shilling.
We all took the Oath that said
What we were prepared to give;
Surely we deserve consideration
When afterwards we try to live.
No man can understand
The path another may choose
Unless he has walked
In that other mans shoes.
It cannot be right that actions,
Taken in a split second of time,
From twenty five year's distance
Can be judged as a War Crime.
Perhaps those
Political Whores
Shoud go and fight
Their own wars.
Blind Justice