“If I should die, think only this of me: that there’s some corner of a foreign field that is forever England,” As several hundred people stood listening to the words of this famous English war poem, the sun broke through onto a corner of a foreign field and the final resting place of English World War II soldier, private Henry Moon. Moon, a 21-year-old private in 7th Battalion The Green Howards, landed in the Netherlands on June 6, 1944. He...
Even their poetry was imperial and expansionist. Oh well, at least this gives me some context for that Roger Waters song.