<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399465" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Captain</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It’s the third day of the battle<br>and around us there are enemy tanks<br>of which the canons keep clapping<br>and Stalin organ rockets<br>that falls at places among our men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Next to me there’s a Captain<br>with a three day old beard<br>and his eyes is red of tiredness<br>while he gives instructions<br>over the radio.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We shoot till darkness<br>and through the night<br>and thunder clap flashes<br>keep on shooting<br>the enemy out.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The morning dawns<br>and the sun rises over the battlefield, <br>that is soundless and grim<br>and like two ghosts<br>we walk around in the bushes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He wipes dust from his face<br>while we drive further<br>through the bushes<br>and we look out<br>from the top of the Ratel IFV<br>and in the distance, <br>a single rifle shot resounds<br>and the Captain is dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>[Reference: Ratel IFV=> Ratel Infantry Fighting Vehicle]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</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=399465" data-title="The Captain de Gert Strydom" data-description="It’s the third day of the battle and around us there are enemy tanks of which the canons keep clapping and Stalin organ rockets that falls at places among our men. Next to me there’s a Captain with a three day old beard and his eyes is red of..."></div> </div> </div>

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