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The Forgotten
The Forgotten
You, the forgotten,
Chindits, Gurkhas, Commonwealth
Fighting to the end
In the jungles of Burma.
Now you are the remembered.
[for Sergeant Major Kenneth Whiteley a Burma campaign veteran and my father]
Friday 15th August 2025 2:25 pm
So Easily
her smile came so easily
before I could even blink,
she made my heart race
brought me to the brink
dress slipped off so easily
mysore silk of jade green,
the body of a svelte and
molten Myanmar queen
her love given so easily
from a brimming chalice,
no passion ever rivalled
what oozed from Alice
slipped away so easily
with barely a mumur,
pe...
Tuesday 8th December 2020 10:14 am
ICE FLY
ICE FLY
How many pilots died and old aircraft lost when they flew over jagged snowy peaks in the remotest corners of the world? Doing a dangerous job knowing the risks and trusting in fate and luck to bring the through. Some never made it, there planes impacting vertical mountain sides in sickening crashes. Bodies lost forever, frozen in the time of death. Icily cold and otherworldly ...
Thursday 23rd February 2012 1:48 am
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