[HN Gopher] God rest ye merry fighting men (2006)
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       God rest ye merry fighting men (2006)
        
       Author : walterbell
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2022-12-14 07:19 UTC (15 hours ago)
        
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       | recursivedoubts wrote:
       | one of the great moments in modern european history and a
       | wonderful movie
        
       | hprotagonist wrote:
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPdHkHslFIU
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       |  _A Christmas on the frontline, we walk among our friends, we
       | don't think about tomorrow, the battle will commence
       | 
       | When we celebrated Christmas, we thought about our friends, those
       | who never made it home, when the battle had commenced_
        
         | ukoki wrote:
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRgtzZ-mOQo
         | 
         |  _All together now, all together now_
         | 
         |  _All together now in no man 's land (together)_
        
           | 082349872349872 wrote:
           | ALL THE BEASTS TOGETHER            Children of the Camp are
           | we,       Serving each in his degree;       Children of the
           | yoke and goad,       Pack and harness, pad and load.
           | See our line across the plain,       Like a heelrope bent
           | again,       Reaching, writhing, rolling far,       Sweeping
           | all away to war!       While the men that walk beside,
           | Dusty, silent, heavy-eyed,       Cannot tell why we or they
           | March and suffer day by day.
           | 
           | https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_paradesong.htm
        
             | hprotagonist wrote:
             | The thin-lipped armorer,       Hephaestos, hobbled away,
             | Thetis of the shining breasts       Cried out in dismay
             | At what the god had wrought       To please her son, the
             | strong       Iron-hearted man-slaying Achilles       Who
             | would not live long.
             | 
             | https://poets.org/poem/shield-achilles
        
       | alexilliamson wrote:
       | I'm going to take this opportunity to plug the excellent
       | documentary Life Itself - about Ebert. It really makes you
       | appreciate the mark he left on film criticism and the industry in
       | general.
        
       | AlbertCory wrote:
       | Rest in peace, Roger. You were the greatest critic who ever was.
        
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