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Author’s Note: My Muse and I were reading several accounts of life in the trenches around Avdiivka – could have been the Somme or Verdun a little more than a hundred years ago\u2026<\/p>\nAuthor’s Note: My Muse and I were reading several accounts of life in the trenches around Avdiivka – could have been the Somme or Verdun a little more than a hundred years ago\u2026<\/p>\n
– Arrias<\/p>\n
Very Wrong<\/strong><\/p>\n The trenches are long and dark and dank,<\/p>\n Always hot or always cold,<\/p>\n The men climb out and go on patrol,<\/p>\n And come back tired and numb and old.<\/p>\n Day after day they fight the foe,<\/p>\n Tactics and weapons the same,<\/p>\n It may look different from the capitals,<\/p>\n But in the trenches it\u2019s the same game.<\/p>\n The casualties continue to mount,<\/p>\n It\u2019s a never-ending grind,<\/p>\n This war it seems may never end,<\/p>\n The rest of the world seems not to mind.<\/p>\n The leaders all have their reasons,<\/p>\n They can tell you why,<\/p>\n Why the men must keep fighting,<\/p>\n But the leaders don\u2019t have to die.<\/p>\n Are they fighting for their freedom?<\/p>\n If so, men can take the hurt.<\/p>\n But is that really what they do?<\/p>\n Or do they fight just for a piece of dirt?<\/p>\n Prime Ministers and Presidents<\/p>\n Use such beautiful words to inspire,<\/p>\n But the soldiers are left to fight,<\/p>\n And in the mud and cold expire.<\/p>\n In the capitals the leaders<\/p>\n In soft, warms bed at night sleep,<\/p>\n But in the trenches sleep the grunts,<\/p>\n Where the mud’s six inches deep.<\/p>\n They say the war is winnable,<\/p>\n And both capitals say \u201cBe Strong!\u201d<\/p>\n But in the trenches this they know: Copyright 2023 Arrias Author’s Note: My Muse and I were reading several accounts of life in the trenches around Avdiivka – could have been the Somme or Verdun a little more than a hundred years ago\u2026 – Arrias Very Wrong The trenches are long and dark and dank, Always hot or always cold, The men climb out and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arrian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26721,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26719\/revisions\/26721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAt least one side is very wrong.<\/p>\n
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