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Tommy

This Kipling poem is one that I’ve memorized off and on, and one of the first I tumbled into (I think “The ‘Eathen” was the first)  in the process of discovering Kipling as a poet. It too would have been fitting for Memorial day, and no, I wasn’t going to wait for veterans day. The …

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Posted bydgarsysJune 3, 2013Posted inUncategorizedTags: kipling, soldiers, tommyLeave a comment on Tommy

Cells

I first ran into this poem while reading an early, collected version of Pournelle’s “Falkenberg” mercenary stories set in a future “CoDominium”. This is much earlier in the same timeline as the classic first contact science fiction novel “Mote in Gods Eye”. Needless to say – Kipling was well aware that soldiers were hardly saints.  …

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Posted bydgarsysMay 20, 2013Posted inUncategorizedTags: cells, kipling, soldiersLeave a comment on Cells

Dedication from “Barrack-Room Ballads”

Posted bydgarsysJanuary 14, 2013Posted inUncategorizedTags: ballads, barrack room ballads, kipling, soldiersLeave a comment on Dedication from “Barrack-Room Ballads”

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