Comments on: The Last of the Light Brigade (complete version) — by Rudyard Kipling http://isolanis.com/2009/06/the-last-of-the-light-brigade-complete-version-by-rudyard-kipling/ Net home of the Isolanis Chess Club Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:04:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: kj http://isolanis.com/2009/06/the-last-of-the-light-brigade-complete-version-by-rudyard-kipling/comment-page-1/#comment-33758 kj Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:04:23 +0000 http://isolanis.com/?p=164#comment-33758 Listen to this poem via the veterans-aid uk website. Seeing exservicemen down on their luck reciting the words Kipling wrote really got to me !. History does have a way of repeating itself. Listen to this poem via the veterans-aid uk website. Seeing exservicemen down on their luck reciting the words Kipling wrote really got to me !. History does have a way of repeating itself.

]]> By: Nancy Best http://isolanis.com/2009/06/the-last-of-the-light-brigade-complete-version-by-rudyard-kipling/comment-page-1/#comment-33756 Nancy Best Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:24:03 +0000 http://isolanis.com/?p=164#comment-33756 It is Christmas 2010 and yet this is still so true today. We have many homeless vets, victims of alchohol and drugs. Many living in our woods and tent cities. They left as young moral men and they returned as helpless, less than human spirits that we avoid. If you see one of these men on the street and rush by, please remember that they gave their lives and minds for your comfort. Nancy B. It is Christmas 2010 and yet this is still so true today. We have many homeless vets, victims of alchohol and drugs. Many living in our woods and tent cities. They left as young moral men and they returned as helpless, less than human spirits that we avoid.
If you see one of these men on the street and rush by, please remember that they gave their lives and minds for your comfort.

Nancy B.

]]> By: Cynthia http://isolanis.com/2009/06/the-last-of-the-light-brigade-complete-version-by-rudyard-kipling/comment-page-1/#comment-32965 Cynthia Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:22:26 +0000 http://isolanis.com/?p=164#comment-32965 This poem is so fitting to all the wars in which we've fought. Soon as the conflicts are over, we forget the military. Wars are a rich person's playground and individuals fights are their toys. The rich get richer from wars and from the rebuilding after the treaties are signed. Puts me in reminder of another poem: Dulce et decorum est, pro patrium mori. This poem is so fitting to all the wars in which we’ve fought. Soon as the conflicts are over, we forget the military. Wars are a rich person’s playground and individuals fights are their toys. The rich get richer from wars and from the rebuilding after the treaties are signed. Puts me in reminder of another poem: Dulce et decorum est, pro patrium mori.

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