Tag: CND

FRANCE – INCONVENIENT HISTORY OF DEFEATS

Despite considerable numerical superiority in troops, tanks and air power and the Maginot Line defenses, France after it declared war on the Third Reich (September 3, 1939) lasted just six weeks against the Reich, which had occupied northern France to deter a D-Day invasion by Britain. Oh, dear! France suffered a loss of two million (killed, wounded, captured).

THE SECOND CASUALTY OF WAR

According to the International Press Institute (IPI), a total of 100 journalists were killed in 2010. This figure is only marginally lower than the previous year when 110 were slain. The year 2011 figures were much higher and have been soaring ever since with the deadliest zones being Jewish Occupied Palestine, Pakistan, Iraq and Libya.

I SAW A YOUNG MAN WALKING

I SAW A YOUNG MAN WALKING . The youth I met today was old, A child of early times, Much water had passed under bridge, How oft’ those church bells chimed. One hundred or more years, I’d say, They stood at young man’s grave to pray, And yet […]