MEDALS

Posted by Unknown On Friday, October 23, 2009 2 comments

The following poem which Tony, a blog reader from UK, sent to me. It is a very beautiful and moving poem and I would like to dedicate it to all who fought for their countries, especially those who perished at the battlefield. May their souls rest in peace and may their families be blessed always. Thanks Tony!

Have a lovely evening!

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Medals



Don’t envy a man his medals

All those ribbons on his chest

He did not try to get them

They’re not there at his request

They were earned in stinking hell holes

Where no man would like to go

Or in cold and wintery places

Where there’s only ice and snow

He did not know he earned them

Till they were awarded at parade

And they were bright when he first got them

But in time the colours fade

He was told he had to wear them

And to wear them all with pride

But when the memories come to haunt him

Those same medals make him hide

Cause those medals will not bring back

All those guys he left behind

And he would trade them all for ever

For a little piece of mind

So don’t envy a man his medals

You don’t want to take his place

Thinking back to long gone battles

And meeting dead friends face to face.

-Author Unknown-


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FRIDAY HUMOR - LANGUAGE CAN BE FUN!!!

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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as 'Euro-English'.

In the first year, 'S' will replace the soft 'c'. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard 'c' will be dropped in favour of 'k'. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboardskan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome 'ph' will be replaced with 'f'. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent 'e' in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing 'th' with 'z' and 'w' with 'v'.

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary 'O kan be dropd from vords kontaining 'ou' and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi TU understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl.

Av a niz dey folks!!! Smile a lot!!

*This post is specially dedicated to Angelina aka Cat-in-Sydney. Hugs to you, Brad and the whole brood!!!


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