Thought For the Day - 8

[buttons-and-bows]

congratulations Ann XXX

[meebo1]

Good morning. I can see blue cloudless sky again and today is going to be busy, as we are having visitors later and I promised them and English afternoon tea. And as we are out for a while after lunch I shall have to prep everything this morning. At least lunch is made - a clod almond and garlic soup with a chunk of baguette. But first I need to make tea and coffee and put my holiday notice up or I will forget that. Have a good day

[Anniemcc2]

Spare a thought 102 years ago today at 0730 the start of the Battle of the Somme and to this day remains the bloodiest day in British Military history.



The War Generation:
In cities and in hamlets we were born,
And little towns behind the van of time;
A closing era mocked our guileless dawn
With jingles of a military rhyme.
But in that song we heard no warning chime,
Nor visualised in hours benign and sweet
The threatening woe that our adventurous feet
Would starkly meet.
Thus we began, amid the echoes blown
Across our childhood from an earlier war,
Too dim, too soon forgotten, to dethrone
Those dreams of happiness we thought secure;
While, imminent and fierce outside the door,
Watching a generation grow to flower,
The fate that held our youth within its power waited its hour.
Vera Brittan

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