Saturday, June 18, 2005

Waterloo day reflections.

It's once again Waterloo day. Like Normandy and Gettysburg one of those place named anniversaries that help us remember times when good stood up to evil.

Good embodied in thousands of ordinary people who for one day risked and sometimes gave their futures for our tomorrows.

Although it's been almost two centuries, it's not that long ago. There are still people alive today whose lives overlap the very oldest veterans of the war to defeat the Corsican tyrant.

So as you go about your day spare a thought for those sweating, dead, or maimed for us in the wheat that day, and all the others who strove for 23 years against that despotism.

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