When Will They Ever Learn?

Senior Aircraftman Christopher Bridge [Picture: RAF]

Senior Aircraftman Christopher Bridge, who died on 30 August, 2007, aged 20, was serving in Afghanistan with C flight, 51 Squadron Royal Air Force Regiment.

A civilian interpreter was also sadly killed in the incident and two other servicemen received minor injuries. Shortly after midnight local time, C Flight was conducting a routine security patrol around Kandahar Airfield when the vehicle SAC Bridge was travelling in was caught in an explosion.
All the casualties were evacuated to the ISAF medical facility at Kandahar Airfield by emergency response helicopter. Sadly SAC Bridge was pronounced dead on arrival and the interpreter later died of his wounds.

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A Wife in London' by Thomas Hardy - December 1899

A Poem of the Boer war

I ~ The Tragedy

She sits in the tawny vapour
That the City lanes have uprolled,
Behind whose webby fold on fold
Like a waning taper
The street-lamp glimmers cold.

A messenger's knock cracks smartly,
Flashed news is in her hand
Of meaning it dazes to understand
Though shaped so shortly:

*

II ~ The Irony

'Tis the morrow; the fog hangs thicker,
The postman nears and goes:
A letter is brought whose lines disclose
By the firelight flicker
His hand, whom the worm now knows:

Fresh ~ firm ~ penned in highest feather -
Page-full of his hoped return,
And of home-planned jaunts by brake and burn
In the summer weather,
And of new love that they would learn.

He ~ has fallen ~ in the far South Land . . .

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And all for what?

Libya, Afghanistan, Iran? etc. - you too can have a country like this!

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