I am not naive to the fact that the worst of tyrants can ingratiate themselves with fine words
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But leaving aside your "romantic" vision of the war-dead and the need to glorify Man's tasks to find some justification, also avoiding, for now, playing terminology games with their use of the word "terrorist" ... This is the wrong time, and in the wrong place and probably for the wrong reasons, to seek funding for such a "Memorial"
I have no doubt factors in the occupied north are behind such blatant encouragement, and as such I feel any "young soldiers who died for their country" are being sabotaged (more so than usual).
This isn't about a Memorial to those young soldiers. This is about some Brits and Turks, once again, taking advantage of Cyprus' weakened state, i.e. faced with an ongoing Turkish occupation, and going against the will and desire of the RoC, to erect this memorial in Kyrenia where our government does not have effective control.
Besides, I prefer this:
The Soldier
Rupert Brooke
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is forever 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, blest by 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 at peace, under an English heaven.
