1 July Post
Jun. 30th, 2013 08:02 pmOn this day in 1916...
You can accuse someone of not having their job done right, you can accuse them of making mistakes, you can accuse them of horrific oversights...
But when they shell the enemy's lines for a full week before the attack with every gun and shell they can spare, the thing they cannot be accused of regarding the fate of their men is callous indifference. Sorry, no. Not hearing of it. And when their enemy packs up and retreats at the end of four months because he never wants to go through that sort of shit again, and in the process wrecks every building, blows every bridge and poisons every well, that enemy cannot claim victory - or even a draw. Not morally, not technically.
You can accuse someone of not having their job done right, you can accuse them of making mistakes, you can accuse them of horrific oversights...
But when they shell the enemy's lines for a full week before the attack with every gun and shell they can spare, the thing they cannot be accused of regarding the fate of their men is callous indifference. Sorry, no. Not hearing of it. And when their enemy packs up and retreats at the end of four months because he never wants to go through that sort of shit again, and in the process wrecks every building, blows every bridge and poisons every well, that enemy cannot claim victory - or even a draw. Not morally, not technically.
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