Well said, Bot.

Roger's choice of Dresden is significant, because it has remained a highly controversial mission. Most people agree (20/20 hindsight helps) that it was a needless mission; a merciless slaughter of innocents on the ground and therefore also a waste of the airmen who died. i.e., "the gunner", which, of course, is the theme heard over and over in Water's work.

"In the corner of some foreign field" is a phrase lifted from a poem by Rupert Brooke, who perished in WWI:

Sonnet V: THE SOLDIER

"If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blessed by the suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts a peace, under an English heaven."






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Taking away from you for the greater good. (The Audacity of Socialism).

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The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery." -Winston Churchill

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