Don't know how many of you saw the TV interviews of parents of the officer latest to be killed in Iraq. The father is a Brigadier but, even taking this into account, they show tremendous fortitude quite different to the images of a shattered life one normally sees. This is a poem that has been attached to a forum
And though you be done to death, what then?
If you battled the best you could;
If you played your part in the world of men,
Why, the Critic will call it good.
Death comes with a crawl, or comes with a pounce,
And whether he's slow or spry,
It isn't the fact that you're dead that counts,
But only, how did you die?
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