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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409038" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Unarmed Combat</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In due course of course you will all be issued with<br>Your proper issue; but until tomorrow,<br>You can hardly be said to need it; and until that time,<br>We shall have unarmed combat. I shall teach you.<br>The various holds and rolls and throws and breakfalls<br>Which you may sometimes meet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the various holds and rolls and throws and breakfalls<br>Do not depend on any sort of weapon,<br>But only on what I might coin a phrase and call<br>The ever-important question of human balance,<br>And the ever-important need to be in a strong<br>Position at the start.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There are many kinds of weakness about the body,<br>Where you would least expect, like the ball of the foot.<br>But the various holds and rolls and throws and breakfalls<br>Will always come in useful. And never be frightened<br>To tackle from behind: it may not be clean to do so,<br>But this global war.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So give them all you have, and always give them<br>As good as you get; it will always get you somewhere.<br>(You may not know it, but you can tie a Jerry<br>Up without rope; it is one of the things I shall teach.)<br>Nothing will matter if only you are ready for him.<br>The readiness is all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The readiness is all. How can I help but feel<br>I have been here before? But somehow then,<br>I was the tied-up one. How to get out<br>Was always then my problem. And even if I had<br>A piece of rope I was always the sort of person<br>Who threw rope aside.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And in my time I had given them all I had,<br>Which was never as good as I got, and it got me nowhere.<br>And the various holds and rolls and throws and breakfalls<br>Somehow or other I always seemed to put<br>In the wrong place. And, as for war, my wars<br>Were global from the start.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Perhaps I was never in a strong position.<br>Or the ball of my foot got hurt, or I had some weakness<br>Where I had least expected. But I think I see your point.<br>While awaiting a proper issue, we must learn the lesson<br>Of the ever-important question of human balance.<br>It is courage that counts.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Things may be the same again; and we must fight<br>Not in the hope of winning but rather of keeping<br>Something alive: so that when we meet our end,<br>It may be said that we tackled wherever we could,<br>That battle-fit we lived, and though defeated,<br>Not without glory fought.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Reed">Henry Reed</a><div class=q>
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Your proper issue; but until tomorrow,
You can hardly be said to need it; and until that time,
We shall have unarmed combat. I shall teach you.
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