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The following appeared in the Telegraph today regarding the casulty rate of British soldiers in Iraq:


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/07/15/dl1502.xml


DULCE ET DECORUM EST - the first words of a Latin saying (taken from an ode by Horace). The words were widely understood and often quoted at the start of the First World War. They mean "It is sweet and right." The full saying ends the poem: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - it is sweet and right to die for your country. In other words, it is a wonderful and great honour to fight and die for your country

See also:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/exclusions/frontline/nosplit/frontline.xml

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2126817,00.html


The forsaken: how Britain is failing to care for badly injured troops

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2771009.ece

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OPINIONS MAY VARY ON THAT,IS THE COUNTRY WORTH IT?,ONE THING FOR SURE EVEN IF IT IS GOOD AND SWEET TO FIGHT AND DIE FOR YOUR COUNTRY,ITS THE BETTER OPTION THAN GETTING BADLY WOUNDED DOING THE SAME THING.THIS IS THE WHOLE BASIS OF THE 'RBL' AT WWW.BROKENCOVENANT.COM : SEVERAL PEOPLE CAME UP WITH WORDS THAT ARE IMMORTAL,AND ASSOCIATED WITH WAR,EMINATING FROM WORLD WAR ONE,'IN FLANDERS FIELDS','THERE NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE','KNOWN UNTO GOD'.ONE THAT BANGS RIGHT HOME IS THIS GEM,RUDYARD KIPLING PULLED STRINGS TO GET HIS SON IN THE ARMY ( HE HAD POOR EYESIGHT),HE WAS KILLED AT LOOS,KIPLING CAME UP WITH,'IF YOU ASK US WHY WE DIED,ITS BECAUSE OUR FATHERS LIED'. NUFF SAID.

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