Tag: peace
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Magnificent(for Sandor)
When, during the Crimean war, an English cavalry unit frontally charged a Russian line of guns, and got massacred in the process, the French general Bosquet (witness to this debacle) remarked that ‘ it is magnificent, but it is not war.’. This quote was on first Lieutenant John Maltowes mind when sixty two years later,…
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The bridge
Major Anders was writing a letter to his wife when his intimate thoughts were interrupted. Men barked agitated orders, vehicles backed up and fumes started to spoil the air. The cobbled narrow street below the window was cluttering with vehicles and men.. Anders got his jeep and drove up to his most forward unit to…
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