Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Poetic Obituaries: Mr. [Harry] Patch believed "war is

organised murder" and said: "It was not worth it, it was not worth one let alone all the millions.

"It's important that we remember the war dead on both sides of the line - the Germans suffered the same as we did."

Five Acts

In February this year, then Poet Laureate Andrew Motion was commissioned to write a poem in Mr Patch's honour, entitled "The Five Acts of Harry Patch".

I.

A curve is a straight line caught bending

from Channel 4 News: WWI veteran Harry Patch dies

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