Kick back. Fire up the grill. Pop open a beer. Dip your feet in some water.

‘They’

_{The Bishop tells us: ‘When the boys come back
‘They will not be the same; for they’ll have fought
‘In a just cause: they lead the last attack
‘On Anti-Christ; their comrades’ blood has bought
‘New right to breed an honourable race,
‘They have challenged Death and dared him face to face.’}

_{‘We’re none of us the same!’ the boys reply.
‘For George lost both his legs; and Bill’s stone blind;
‘Poor Jim’s shot through the lungs and like to die;
‘And Bert’s gone syphilitic: you’ll not find
‘A chap who’s served that hasn’t found some change.
‘ And the Bishop said: ‘The ways of God are strange!’}

_{– Siegfried Sassoon, 1917}

I happened to stumble across a doc on Scottish Independence. I couldn’t stop watching, so I’ll share.

Declaration of Arbroath, 1320

“As long as a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be subjected to the lordship of the English. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself”.

For FREEDOM, not oil, power or geopolitical posturing.

Enjoy.