<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390686" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Somme - 1916</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Proud I was, to join up and fight for my Country.<br>The khaki uniform, the regimental badge.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then I saw Charlie. He bled to death, poor sod, <br>no one to help him, <br>he was just cannon fodder.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Are we winning Sarge? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stuck in this filthy trench, socks saturated, serge wet, <br>soul soaked in despair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What're we fighting for Sarge? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'd write home, but they'd most likely never receive it, <br>and even a letter would be plastered with mud<br>before it even got as far as the envelope.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ammo's low Sarge! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Firing at mirages, floating far off in a mist, <br>ethereal bodies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Call this life, mate! <br>Nah! Living death! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They said it'll be over by Christmas.<br>Do you believe that Sarge? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hope so, cos all we have left is 'hope'! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ernestine+Northover">Ernestine Northover</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390686" data-title="The Somme - 1916 de Ernestine Northover" data-description="Proud I was, to join up and fight for my Country. The khaki uniform, the regimental badge. Then I saw Charlie. He bled to death, poor sod, no one to help him, he was just cannon fodder. Are we winning Sarge? Stuck in this filthy trench, sock..."></div> </div> </div>

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