Operation Herrick: An Unofficial History of British Military Operations in Afghanistan 2001-2014 by 'Sallust'

Author:'Sallust'
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2016-03-12T23:00:00+00:00

In poppy fields you were to fall,

St Peter was to hear your call,

And take your soul for God to keep,

And help embrace that endless sleep.

Your friends will mourn,

Your wife will weep,

Your son will see you in his sleep.

You are another hero lost

Another son this war has cost.

And with your name upon the wall,

With other friends that were to fall,

And died upon their country’s call.

In poppy fields they still stand tall.

The Helmand Poem was rivalled by a similar elegy to the fallen written by a Territorial Army soldier, Staff Sergeant Andrew McFarlane. He took as his subject the repatriation process, beginning with the manner in which the news of a death spread like wildfire through the task force:[700]

The news is spread far and wide

Another comrade has sadly died

A sunset vigil upon the sand

As a soldier leaves this foreign land.

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