Here's one I haven't read in a long time.
GUNGA DIN
By Rudyard Kipling
YOU may talk o' gin an' beer
When you're quartered safe out 'ere,
An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it;
But if it comes to slaughter
You will do your work on water,
An' you'll lick the...
Received this poem, but I'm sorry to say I don't know who the author is.
Silky
THE BRITISH SQUADDIE
When you're lying alone in your Afghan bivvy
And your life it depends on some MOD civvie
When the body Armour's shared (one set between three)
And the fire fight's not like it is on...
THE MONSTERS AND THE WEAK
By Michael Marks
January 25, 2006
The sun beat like a hammer, not a cloud was in the sky.
The mid-day air ran thick with dust, my throat was parched and dry.
With microphone clutched tight in hand and cameraman in tow,
I ducked beneath a fallen roof...
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