http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8157447.stm
What a life that was…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8157231.stm
the last picture sez it all, alas.
A Generation who gave us freedom..and so much more.
Slan,
D.
I heard this on the radio today while working. It made me think of grandaddy.
He was in The Great War too. Was over there…sent to Scotland, then the Argonne, and afterward spent time in Germany…too bad it wasn’t the War to end all Wars..
Interesting version of a great song…the video is heart breaking.
Iraq, Afghanistan…Northern Ireland back in the day..for what.
Slan,
D.
Here’s a nicer setting sung by the man himself, interleaved with a German setting by Hannes Wader:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUzQ6Am-bbc
The best film depiction of the horror of the WWI trenches I’ve seen is Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s “Un Long Dimanche de Fiancailles” (2004), released as “A Very Long Engagement” in English. A underrated film IMO, that deserves more rental views.
My grasp of foreign languages is dubious , at best.
I like it plain and simple.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swviwHDJQoM
Slan,
D. 
I like that one, Dub 
Tis a nice version of a lovely song, a song that was written for all the wrong reasons.
I come from a long line of active Irish Republicans, as ye know, a group of people who went to Mass every day, twice on Sunday. My grandfather, who I’m named after, was second in command in the seventies..when it was really heavy. What bothers me is not that..it was after all, us and the Brits.
What breaks my heart is when I see something on the news, like yesterday, eight British soldiers wiped out in Afghanistan. Average age was about nineteen. What the Fcuk are they fighting for…Why are they there…Al Quida…yeah, I’m defecating in my pants now that that is a threat to me and mine.
War is about turf, land, country.
There is S.F.A. in Afghanistan for the Brits but yet they send their boys to die in a war that they can never win…not in a million years.
Vent over.
Slan,
D.