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@ 2008-05-02 – 07:14:09
A DEAD BOCHE
To you who’d read my songs of War
And only hear of blood and fame,
I’ll say (you’ve heard it said before)
”War’s Hell!” and if you doubt the same,
Today I found in Mametz Wood
A certain cure for lust of blood:
Where, propped against a shattered trunk,
In a great mess of things unclean,
Sat a dead Boche; he scowled and stunk
With clothes and face a sodden green,
Big-bellied, spectacled, crop-haired,
Dribbling black blood from nose and beard.
Robert Graves
neilemac
No, I didn't realise that either. I thought "Boche" meant any German soldier.
This article is interesting:
http://www.billcasselman.com/wording_room/boche.htm
It is strange that so often we do not remember that the soldiers we are fighting (and killing) have wives, partners, fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters - just like us.
neilemac
Oh how true Colin: "soldiers we are fighting (and killing) have wives, partners, fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters - just like us."
Have you seen this???
Hundreds killed by US strikes in Sadr City talk about family members; yah, dismembered more like it. Thankfully, not like us.
Sadly, "War's Hell" does not end on this page my friend.
Thanks for the link. Peace!
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Can only imagine how many recent similar sites are witnessed in the 'perpetual war for perpetual peace' unfolding seemingly everywhere around the globe.
And upon returning home, soldiers become neglected and relegated to living in the street if one of the lucky to survive the hideous horrors of war. Discarded pawns in the neocon game of their 'war on terror.'
Didn't know that 'boche' was an offensive term for a person of German descent
Am not sure what to think ...now.