By: Siegfried Sassoon
While I was reading it all I could think of was where have all the flowers gone?
Gone to young men everyone when will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?
Where have all the young men gone long time passing?
Where have all the young men gone long time ago?
Gone for soldiers everyone.
Gone for soldiers everyone
When will they ever learn?
This got me because I lost some friends in Nam and I never really read anything that had the impact this had.
Thank you so much
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Every general needs to read this.
Huge Sassoon fan. I agree with Patris: “Every general needs to read this.” I would add also: Every member of our Congress.
Yes! to you and Patris.
Beautiful. Sad. Truthful.
A beautiful poem.
🥀💦🩸
Very powerful. It’s hard to imagine yet
he brings it to life in a vivid way. I appreciate the lesson about the author.
I read it and I so identify with it. And have been there too many times. Very nice reading.
declared by the old, fought by the young.
Such a welcome and magnificent reverie for a moment, between and within the pain and dying:
Water—calm, sliding green above the weir;
Water—a sky-lit alley for his boat,
Bird-voiced, and bordered with reflected flowers
And shaken hues of summer: drifting down,
He dipped contented oars, and sighed, and slept.
He's young; he hated war; how should he die
When cruel old campaigners win safe through?
But death replied: “I choose him.” So he went….
F@CK WAR!
Thank you for this - it is powerful.
Follow the river of pain til the end.
War is never over for the soldier.
Never…until their death.😥
While I was reading it all I could think of was where have all the flowers gone?
Gone to young men everyone when will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?
Where have all the young men gone long time passing?
Where have all the young men gone long time ago?
Gone for soldiers everyone.
Gone for soldiers everyone
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
This got me because I lost some friends in Nam and I never really read anything that had the impact this had.
Thank you so much
🌹🌹🌹🌹
Every general needs to read this.
Huge Sassoon fan. I agree with Patris: “Every general needs to read this.” I would add also: Every member of our Congress.
Yes! to you and Patris.
Beautiful. Sad. Truthful.
A beautiful poem.
🥀💦🩸
Very powerful. It’s hard to imagine yet
he brings it to life in a vivid way. I appreciate the lesson about the author.
I read it and I so identify with it. And have been there too many times. Very nice reading.
declared by the old, fought by the young.
Such a welcome and magnificent reverie for a moment, between and within the pain and dying:
Water—calm, sliding green above the weir;
Water—a sky-lit alley for his boat,
Bird-voiced, and bordered with reflected flowers
And shaken hues of summer: drifting down,
He dipped contented oars, and sighed, and slept.
He's young; he hated war; how should he die
When cruel old campaigners win safe through?
But death replied: “I choose him.” So he went….
F@CK WAR!
Thank you for this - it is powerful.
Follow the river of pain til the end.
War is never over for the soldier.
Never…until their death.😥