Showing posts with label guns fall silent. Show all posts
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Sunday, November 11, 2018

The Guns Fall Silent



The big guns on the Western Front were firing right up to the minute of the Armistice. This short recording was taken near American positions close to the river Moselle.




Our Great Great Uncle, Private John Q. Adams of Killeen, Texas, was wounded by machine gun fire after the Armistice had been signed; word of the peace hadn't reached that sector of the front. He died ten days later. Rest in Peace.

I'll leave you with this, At The Cenotaph by Seigried Sasson.

I saw the Prince of Darkness, with his Staff, 
Standing bare-headed by the Cenotaph: 
Unostentatious and respectful, there 
He stood, and offered up the following prayer. 
'Make them forget, O Lord, what this Memorial 
Means; their discredited ideas revive; 
Breed new belief that War is purgatorial 
Proof of the pride and power of being alive; 
Men's biologic urge to readjust 
The Map of Europe, Lord of Hosts, increase; 
Lift up their hearts in large destructive lust; 
And crown their heads with blind vindictive Peace.' 
The Prince of Darkness to the Cenotaph 
Bowed. As he walked away I heard him laugh.

LSP