<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Stupidity.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stupidity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We celebrate our dead heroes.<br>Their white headstones arranged in rows.<br>To mark where soldiers bodies lie.<br>They are no longer friends and foes</div><div style="margin:10px 0">War cemeteries are tended well<br> in honour of the men who fell<br>It is the least that we can do<br> for men who died by shot and shell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Each single death a tragedy, <br> each one recorded carefully.<br>To satisfy the bureaucrats<br> who collate deaths statistically.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wonder why we cannot see.<br>That death alone claims victory.<br>Each new war adds to the score<br>of people dying uselessly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though we remember them with pride.<br>The countless men who sadly died.<br>Each thinking that their cause was just.<br>Involuntary suicide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We celebrate our dead heroes<br> with white headstones arranged in rows.<br>Yet we still send young men to die<br>And always will do I suppose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We do not learn from history<br>For no good reason I can see.<br>That wars prove nothing in the end<br>Except how stupid we can be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wednesday,30 December 2009<br>http: // blog.myspace.com/poeticpiers</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</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=414633" data-title="Stupidity. de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="Stupidity. We celebrate our dead heroes. Their white headstones arranged in rows. To mark where soldiers bodies lie. They are no longer friends and foes War cemeteries are tended well in honour of the men who fell It is the least that we can do..."></div> </div> </div>

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