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no hat no boots no vest no job by byronv2

no hat no boots no vest no job

Sign on the worksite in front of the Usher Hall, obviously meant to be a safety reminder for the builders but I couldn't help but think of it as a commentary on the recession. That may just be me amusing myself too easily again, of course, but if I didn't laugh I'd be screaming (and running around with a chainsaw)

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remembrance 6 by byronv2

remembrance 6

There were several anti-war protesters nearby, although they seemed to be very respectful and quiet, making a point about the British government's less than honest and moral foreign policy decisions which have sadly added more names to the list of the fallen. I saw one chatting with a veteran and he didn't seem to mind. The contrast between a beautiful, sunny, peaceful spot like the Gardens on an autumn day and thought of what the men and women commemorated here went through is hard to take in.

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remembrance 4 by byronv2

remembrance 4

This one was to the fallen from the Gordon Highlanders; I couldn't help but notice it since the stag's head and the motto are shared with Clan Gordon, my own clan.

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remembrance 2 by byronv2

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remembrance 1 by byronv2

remembrance 1

I think this one was the saddest I saw, just simply inscribed 'to Dad". Some poor soul's heart is breaking.

"Bent double, like old beggars under sacks
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! - An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And floundering like a man in fire or lime -
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,-
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
"

Dulce est decorum est, Wilfred Owen, a poem started when he was recovering from shellshock during the Great War at Craiglockhart not far very far from where I live in Edinburgh

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