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That reminds me is there a way I can share the Sims 3 and Monopoly for the iPhone/touch with STURNER.

gd wrote:

That reminds me is there a way I can share the Sims 3 and Monopoly for the iPhone/touch with STURNER.

you could send him an itunes gift card.

I guess that would be more useful.

I meant the gift card. There is just no way I can do a good poem without a deadline that is almost up and a subject that has been assigned. Yes my best english poems were written the day before the assignment. The one I wrote got me into the poetry competition at my school and won me 4th place. It also got me a 98 on the asiignment

sturner wrote:

Well you could have done one like this!

If your officer's dead and the sergeants look white,
Remember it's ruin to run from a fight:
So take open order, lie down, and sit tight,
And wait for supports like a soldier.
Wait, wait, wait like a soldier . . .

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier of the Queen!

I think the music in mine is better (hope ya listened, at least) than any musicification of Kipling I've heard or can imagine, and that's Ribtorus' sig. I'm the guy who doesn't think every thread needs schisse, piss und bederf.

Still, it's your birthday, not mine. I'll not inflict "The Ballad of Lt. Calley" on ya (outside MT, anyway ); we walk the high road. So {sigh} ...ok. Close enough, I reckons.

Here ya go; Rule .303. Woodward summons his best to sing it himself.

Just prior, tastefully edited and SFW.

Yes, Bren. I am.

I managed to find the original trailer. I first saw the film 25 years ago at a friend's.

Funny how history repeats itself, but any inferences about sturner himself, his service, or anything else are drawn at the inferrer's own risk and likely wrong. It was the closest I could come on short notice to the request.

sturner wrote:

Yes, Bren. I am.

Thank you. Most soldiers are too modest to agree, but I hold such contributions to be sacred.

Little time lately; didn't even get anything done this long holiday weekend.

This'll have to do for a placeholder.

Some don't need to be closed. </br>

Bren, did you know you have your very own Facebook and MySpace page with those transcripts, open to the public?

Darned if I'm lettin' this zumbify afore I'm done! Anyhoo, appropriateness... osity.

The group of German tourists looked pensive and bowed. As well they might.

They were dutifully following their guide along the pathway leading up to the huge statue that dominates the little peninsula (otherwise known as Westerplatte) to the north of Gdansk – the exact spot where, 70 years ago today, the first shots of the Second World War were fired.

Along the way they passed the patch of grass on which has been emblazoned the motto: "No more war".

From the vantage point of the imposing granite statue dedicated to the Defenders of Westerplatte, they then looked across to the nearby lighthouse and the waters from which the guns of the battleship Schleswig-Holstein unleashed that fateful salvo at precisely 04.45 local time on September 1, 1939.

Despite the overwhelming superiority of German forces, the 180 Polish soldiers manning the Westerplatte garrison managed to withstand bombardment from sea, land and air for almost seven days. But in the end it was clear the position was hopeless and on September 7 the garrison's commander, Major Henryk Sucharski, surrendered.

In addition to the ruins of the guardhouse and barracks, the peninsula contains a modest exhibition depicting what life was like in the garrison. (In the complicated settlement that was reached after the First World War, Polish forces were allowed to man the Westerplatte peninsula even though Gdansk – or Danzig as it was then known – was a "free city" under the jurisdiction of the League of Nations.) The exhibition contains some of the uniforms worn by the soldiers and equipment they used. It also contains a model of the Schleswig-Holstein and pictures dating back to the time when this patch of land had been a popular beach and bathing spot (Hitler himself once stayed in the nearby resort of Sopot).

Elsewhere on the peninsula, a row of tombstones testifies to the Polish soldiers who lost their lives in the attack.

Today, a gathering of European leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, and Foreign Secretary David Miliband, is expected to join the Polish President, Lech Kaczynski, in ceremonies that will include the laying of wreaths at the graves and speeches of remembrance at the Westerplatte monument.

Like all visitors who come to this sombre spot, the assembled dignitaries will no doubt reflect on the chilling fact that from those first shots erupted a conflict that was to claim more than 50 million lives.

Westerplatte, Gdansk: On the spot

The SMS S-H wasn't a battleship in most senses by then, a near-obsolete, pre-DN BB relegated to training duties by 1936, more akin to a cruiser save its 4 11" guns; but those made it worth the effort, and it was available, unneeded elsewhere.

(Like sturner himself, training intensively- er, a gleam in... um... well anyway, he's not dead yet. But 70 years ago today, the first of a great many began to be).

Should be interesting; Polish radio and Moscow have been trading barbs about the Soviet Union 'stabbing them in the back,' invading from the East while Germany blitzed its way thru the Polish cavalry with tanks and dive-bombers, giving the world its first view of Blitzkrieg- "Lightning War." Indeed, Hitler would not even have been ready or able to launch his war without huge shipments of raw materials from Russia following the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Hitler and Stalin both planned to attack the other in time, and were playing for it; Hitler struck first.

Putin is expected to speak. As I said, interesting.