Thursday, 4 October 2007

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est
Pro patria mori.

Wilfred Owen (composed 1917)

So, sad. Tangmarg, Baramula, Kashmir and the two young officers killed today (Major KP Vinay and Major DR Raman). Major Vinay was due to be married later this month. So many other young lives blighted by war ... We have been here before.