by The Unnamed Techie | Oct 16, 2009 | Poetry
Is it wrong to be excited when getting ready to go away? I worry about my loved ones, but I know they’ll be okay, I ponder what I’ll miss but I wonder what I’ll see, And I know when I get back home, they’ll be there waiting for me. Is it wrong to be excited when...
by Dave Stenhouse | Sep 3, 2009 | Poetry
Its only twenty three sleeps, until I can make my escape, back to reality, back to my space. Back to my home, up there in Fife, to the child I helped create, and my gorgeous wife. The whisky will be flowing, with the love and the song, but two weeks won’t last...
by Bernie Shelton | Sep 3, 2009 | Poetry
It’s what you’re told, You are taught, trained To do it, To go back, Whatever the risk You go back. You never leave your mates behind.
by Guy Cecil | Sep 3, 2009 | Stories
TO ALL MY CHILDREN [And Friends} MY CAREER IN THE MILITARY by Guy Cecil During the summer of 1938 there had been talk of war against Hitler due to his demands in Europe. In October we all thought war was about to break out, so I went to the drill hall at Catford on...
by Dave Stenhouse | Aug 31, 2009 | Poetry
We work with locally employed civilians, who have come down to work from Kabul, they are a mixed bunch of characters, and one is as strong as a mule. They service all our vehicles, the one’s that go out on the desert tracks, and all they ask for in return, is...
