Non Placet: A terrible coincidence

Sunday, August 27, 2006

A terrible coincidence

On the very day (August 25th) that I blogged that Cpl. Stephen Bixler was Connecticut's most recent fatal casualty in Iraq († May 2006), Marine Cpl. Jordan C. Pierson of Milford was KIA in Anbar Province.

Cpl. Pierson (pictured at left, below)...

...was 21 year old.

Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis.

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Suicide in the trenches
-by Siegfried Sassoon

I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.

In winter trenches, cowed and glum,
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain,
No-one spoke of him again.

You smug-faced cowards with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The Hell where youth and laughter go.

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"We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators."

[and]

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Sunday, August 27, 2006

A terrible coincidence

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