What a beautiful and evocative verse you've provided us with JOSEPHUS. Between you and LEXI you've both found poetry of a kind, that clearly enunciates exactly what many of us feel but can only visualize.

Yet these consummate and gifted Poet's seem to be able to encapsulate precisely (with just a few carefully chosen words), the true import and emotion of many. More so than any Politician or most of us could, for that matter.

Thank you.

Dear o sung wu,

My father served in both the Malayan Emergency and Korea and ultimately the bottle got him quite a few years before your comrade.

In military college by the age of thirteen with all the accompanying bastardry being melted out to those young lads, caught at an early in the culture of which drinking is so much an integral part.

Damn fit, smart and gutsy, I think all clearance divers had to be, just found it hard to settle for the ordinary.

I get a sense that old age wouldn’t have sat well with him but I reckon he would have got a real kick out of his grandkids if he ever had had the chance to meet them.

ANZAC day does bring memories of him in uniform but also of sacrifices made by many others, especially my mother.

It is not only on the battle field where the costs are borne, something not always fully appreciated.

'evening to you CSTEELE...
Though I was never in the Navy, I did hear quite a lot of the many exploits of the naval clearance divers.

A duty that I'd not care to undertake, I can assure you. Malaya and Korea would have tested many of these brave souls, together with being consigned to living aboard a warship during those days,wouldn't have been very pleasent either. Particularly in the tropics.

Excessive consumption of alcohol was certainly another feature of the period too. But what other diversions were available. The place was so bloody hot, thus in order to cool down one kinda hit the bottle, so to speak. Sure there were some areas that had AIRCON, but nothing like that was available to us, generally.

It wasn't all bad. There were some very funny times too. Not all that many as it turned out, enough though.

Some of my former colleagues have returned to the country. Not me though, I never had the inclination nor desire to do so.

As they say CSTEELE '...keep your powder dry...'. I did enjoy, and was subsequently moved, by reading your thread. Please take good care of yourself.

i was 'in-spired'..to search for a poem

http://mail.google.com/mail/h/1ovpshstk6hvf/?s=q&q=war+cost+reborn+maimed++mutilated&nvp_site_web=Search+the+Web

first posting of it [refused to appear]
but now..its here

hear
two[links]
..stand out
http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.archive.org/stream/vocationalreeduc00paeuiala/vocationalreeduc00paeuiala_djvu.txt&sa=U&ei=RAGBT5HmB-6SiAfnv4G0BA&ved=0CBoQFjAE&sig2=lj0PeDVgy6eh4qU83TqAjA&usg=AFQjCNHgvbUS3SUOTVDAPzDmn39yTJZENA

http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.promethea.org/Misc_Compositions/FightingFutureWar/TheEffectsofWar.html&sa=U&ei=RAGBT5HmB-6SiAfnv4G0BA&ved=0CB8QFjAG&sig2=cH6o657rKHvtOLb76gZ05Q&usg=AFQjCNHn89AdJPbM90QMy8actBndYmXbAA

and give the freemason/vatican one a miss[lol]
http://www.google.com/url?q=http://freemasonrywatch.org/judas.html&sa=U&ei=RAGBT5HmB-6SiAfnv4G0BA&ved=0CCkQFjAJ&sig2=eBefLBZsbqh58vSwPS_U1w&usg=AFQjCNEgq5SbrrZ773UiSJEcZuMuY2HdoA

It's nothing new I'll suffer through
It's all in you an you're wrong
[continues at link]

http://www.lyrics.net/lyrics/mutilate/17

other samples...>>[from link]^

I compensate,..you mutilate
It separated and we're done

I can't sedate the way » Falls Apart

Self-Destructive Pattern
by Spineshank

Now
The time has come
why don't you
Say
We have some fun
and we can now
Play

Operation
and mutilate
*pieces of you

Now
I know
now that this may..» Pieces of You

Women and Children Last...
And Revenge Was the Main Course
by Murderdolls

take it
Come on in,
into the chapel..of blood

Now don't,..be afraid,
As I mutilate you..with this blade

Your body, it lays, in a pool
Of blood » Chapel of Blood

Women and Children Last...
And Revenge Was the Main Course
by Murderdolls

a legacy of murder,
a heritage of rape, a time honored =
Tradition to maim and mutilate...Cut away her labia with dirty broken =
Glass,

she died » Minister of Culture

Collect 'Em All
by Tilt


you down
Mutilated bodies
Crying out in vain!

I will get..the trophies
They will not regain

Once you cross the line
I will break your spine »..The Crippler

Tapping the Vein
by Sodom

full quotes..at link
but worse than these...are made real...!...via war'zzzzzz

UOG,
ANZAC is about rembering the sacrifice to keep you and me in a free world where we can express our ideas. It is not about war or the horror of war.

there is no death
so stop trying to die for us!

such materialist balderdash gets frustrating
as it glorifies lies!

there is only life after life

from a book
of the after life
where even there they love to kill

[lol yet even there cant]
but keep ya ignorances..inebriating the wrong meanings
glorifying the image..not the man

a DEDICATION
by.. the..*not dead..for no one

THIS WORK BY ME
IS INSCRIBED TO REGINALD LUCIEN WARD,

WHO FELL IN THE TIDE OF BATTLE WHERE
FLANDERS MERGES IN FRANCE;

AND PASSED FROM UNDER TIME’S FINGER
WITH NEVER A BACKWARD GLANCE,FOR LOVE OF HIS NATIVE LAND
IN BATTLE AGAINST A HORDE.

AND UNTO HIS COMRADES IN ARMS OF EVERY RANK
AND CREED, WHO GAVE THEIR ALL
IN THE CAUSE OF JUSTICE,
HONOUR, AND TRUTH,

AGAINST THE POWERS OF EVIL
THAT KNOW NEITHER
PITY NOR TRUTH.

TO THE MEN WHO HELD THE BREACH IN THE HOUR
OF BRITAIN’S NEED.

extracted from
gone west pdf
http://forum.worldfreemansociety.org/viewtopic.php?f=198&t=13287

http://forum.worldfreemansociety.org/download/file.php?id=6412