Arís Celebration Choir – Requiem for a Soldier
Kamen and Musker‘s ‘Requiem for A Soldier’ from the mini-series Band of Brothers.
Sung by a Kilkenny-based, all-female choir conducted by Veronica MaCarron.
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Armistice day on November 11.
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Pity to see the immediate use of the poppy – a symbol synonymous with fund raising for the UK armed forces…
Who sent all these youth and men to be used as cannon fodder, brave they were but foolish
to listen to the propaganda of the armchair generals….what exact peace did they achieve as
21 years later it led to another war…..indeed when it was all over it led to demise of Empire
and to cap it all the very nation they sought to conquer is now the industrial giant of Europe
and they ain’t sporting poppies……The Prussian Junkers have not gone away:
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All the best with it BS!
You smug-faced crowds 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.
if we’re talking war poems:
I know that I shall meet my fate,
Somewhere among the clouds above;
Those that I fight I do not hate,
Those that I guard I do not love;
My country is Kiltartan Cross,
My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor,
No likely end could bring them loss
Or leave them happier than before.
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight,
Nor public men, nor cheering crowds,
A lonely impulse of delight
Drove to this tumult in the clouds;
I balanced all, brought all to mind,
The years to come seemed waste of breath,
A waste of breath the years behind
In balance with this life, this death
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