A SOLDIER'S THINGS

SO I COME FROM AN ARMY FAMILY , IF IT WASN'T FOR A TWIST OF FATE , A ND THE WILL OF GOD I TOO WOULD BE IN THE ARMY NOW ,AND I'M SURE WOULD HAVE DONE WELL, WE ENGLISH HAVE A PREDISPOSITION TO BEING GOOD SOLDIERS , OR MAYBE WERE CONDITIONED WELL , MORE LIKELY.

BEFORE THE INTERNET AND MASS PHOTOGRAPHY IT WAS FAR EASIER TO MAINTAIN THE PRETENCE OF THE CHRISTIAN WARRIOR FIGHTING TO ESTABLISH THE RULE OF LAW AND CIVILISATION , IN FACT I SEEM TO REMEMBER THAT EVIL OLD BASTARD BUSH SENIOR SAYING SIMILAR WITH THAT MALEVOLENT SNEERING GRIN , ANNOUNCING THE NEW WORLD ORDER , NOT REALLY NEW , JUST SAME OLD SHIT THATS BEEN AROUND SINCE NIMRODS DAY AND HIS TOWER OF BABEL, THE ETERNAL PLAN OF THE POWER PSYCHOPATHS , OR IS IT THE WILL OF GOD ? SOME ONE ONCE SAID " DO YOU NOT KNOW I HAVE THE POWER OVER LIFE AND DEATH " THE RESPONSE WAS " YOU ONLY HAVE THE POWER MY FATHER IN HEAVEN HAS GIVEN YOU " 

SO TO THE POINT WHILE IN BELGIUM I FOUND THE MOST POIGNANT MEMORIAL TO WAR AND ALL THOSE WHOSE DEATH WERE PRE PLANNED AND  ORDAINED BY THOSE GIVEN THE POWER ,WERE NOT THE HUGH MARBLE EDIFICES AND SEAS OF WHITE GRAVE STONES , BUT THE CONSTANT FLOOD OF RUSTY AND TWISTED PERSONAL EFFECTS RECOVERED EACH YEAR BY FARMERS PLOUGHING THE FIELDS 

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THIS YEAR I WAS TOLD BY MY FRIEND A BELGIUM FARMER HIM SELF, A COMPLETE GERMAN MOTORCYCLE COMPLETE WITH RIDER WAS EXCAVATED , IT WAS ASSUMED HE HAD DROWNED IN A SHELL CRATER AND WAS COVERED BY EARTH UNTIL TODAY . HE ALSO TOLD ME TO THIS DAY FARMERS STILL ARGUE OVER FIELD BOUNDARIES AS THE LAND WAS SO CHURNED UP AND DESTROYED , TWO GENERATIONS LATTER FAMILIES STILL ARGUE OVER A FOOT OF LAND , BUT NOW WITH OUT GUNS 

ONE OF THE MOST COMMON FINDS ARE SMALL TINS WHICH WOULD CONTAIN A RUBBER CONDOM , THE OFFICIAL STANCE WAS THAT THE SPREAD OF SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE WOULD GREATLY IMPEDE THE ARMIES EFFICIENCY , BUT IN REALITY I CAN IMAGINE THOSE NAIVE SOLDIERS COMING FROM THEIR SMALL VILLAGES AND TOWNS   , THINKING NOT ONLY OF ADVENTURE AND FOREIGN TRAVEL , BUT ALSO ENCOUNTERS WITH EXOTIC FOREIGN "LIBERATED " AND LIBERATED !! WOMEN , IN REALITY THAT CONDOM WOULD PROBABLY BE ONLY GOOD FOR PUTTING OVER THE BARREL OF YOUR GUN TO STOP THE TORRENTS OF MUD 

SO WHATS THE POINT MORBID CURIOSITY , HEART FELT PRIDE AND RESPECT FOR THOSE WHO FELL IN DEFENCE OF OUR FREEDOM , AND NOW CONSTITUTE PART OF THAT IMPERIAL EXPANSIONISM VIA GRAVES AND MEMORIALS WHICH LITERALLY COVER BELGIUM , SOME CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD FOREVER ENGLAND , I DO HOPE YOUR STANDING BY NOW AND SALUTING THE FLAG OR THE PICTURE OF THE QUEEN , WHICH EVER IS MORE APPROPRIATE. WELL SIT DOWN YOU SILLY ARSE , HOW OFTEN CAN YOU BE FOOLED BY THE SAME OLD TIRED JINGOISTIC BULL SHIT , WAR IS A RACKET , GOOGLE THAT PHRASE SOME ONE ONCE GAVE A SPEECH ABOUT THAT  ! 

AS ADULTS YOU CANT BLAME THE YOUNG MEN , THE NAIVE TESTOSTERONE FILLED YOUTH , SUBJECTED TO AN EDUCATION SYSTEM BASED ON THE AUSTRIAN SYSTEM TO PRODUCE OBEDIENT SOLDIERS , BUT AS ADULTS YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER , THERE IS NO EXCUSE WITH OUR NOW BRIEF WINDOW OF ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND IF YOU DONT LIKE READING THERE ARE PICTURES !! AND ADVISE THE YOUNG ,SET SOME SORT OF EXAMPLE , STOP BELIEVING THOSE PAID AND COMPROMISED ACTORS CALLED POLITICIANS 

HAVE A GOOD DAY , AND HUG YOUR KIDS AND LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOURS

BEST REGARDS TONY