Nice Poem indeed.
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Here is a small picture of the place called “The bloody Ridge” (Tr.: Kanlı Sirt) in the Gallipoli Peninsula in the Dardanelles straights. I looks like such a peaceful place to be in today yet in 1915 it was the place of one of the bloodiest battles of WWI. The place became the final resting place of 250.000 allied and 250.000 Turkish troops. Although the battle ended in a victory for the Turkish side with the withdrawal of British troops after 8 months of war, it led the commander of the Turkish troops (who was later to become the founder of the modern Turkish Republic) to say the following words:
“I shall not have pity in my hearth when I have to lead my troops toward those who came to kill the people of my nation. Still, if there is no existential threat toward the life of my people every war in this world is nothing but murder”
2) David Letterman has a very nice 50 minute documentary on Netflix on the current situation in Ukraine that includes an interview with the president Vlodymyr Zelensky.
I saw a lot of Russia backed stupidity on social media in the first months of the war. But his whole body language is telling me that he is a true commander general, with people around him respecting him and what they are facing there is real war. So I find the documentary very interesting. It’s on Netflix.
Here is a small picture of the place called “The bloody Ridge” (Tr.: Kanlı Sirt) in the Gallipoli Peninsula in the Dardanelles straights. I looks like such a peaceful place to be in today yet in 1915 it was the place of one of the bloodiest battles of WWI. The place became the final resting place of 250.000 allied and 250.000 Turkish troops. Although the battle ended in a victory for the Turkish side with the withdrawal of British troops after 8 months of war, it led the commander of the Turkish troops (who was later to become the founder of the modern Turkish Republic) to say the following words:
“I shall not have pity in my hearth when I have to lead my troops toward those who came to kill the people of my nation. Still, if there is no existential threat toward the life of my people every war in this world is nothing but murder”
2) David Letterman has a very nice 50 minute documentary on Netflix on the current situation in Ukraine that includes an interview with the president Vlodymyr Zelensky.
I saw a lot of Russia backed stupidity on social media in the first months of the war. But his whole body language is telling me that he is a true commander general, with people around him respecting him and what they are facing there is real war. So I find the documentary very interesting. It’s on Netflix.
