Japanese Death Poem (Haiku) Here I dangle, Limbs a tangle. Body bent… Fed through a mangle! Captain Nakoshi Takemori – Okinawa (1945) – Kamikaze Pilot
Tag: bravery
News Article: Local NHS Midwife Awarded ‘999’ Cruise! (Submitted to the ‘Sutton Guardian’ 15.7.2021)
BY ADRIAN CHAN-WYLES (15.7.2021) Author’s Note: A slightly different version of this article appeared in the online Sutton Guardian dated Wednesday 21.7.2021 – and again
Joseph Stalin: ‘Not One Step Backwards!’ – Special Order No, 227 (28.7.1942)
On 28th July, 1942, Joseph Stalin – as People’s Commissar of Defence – signed Special Order No. 227. Under its familiar name of ‘ни на шаг назад’ (Ni Na
Sevastopol: Soviet Women Defended the Last Fort to Fall! (1942)
The Nazi German military besieged the Nothern Russian Port of Sevastopol from October 30th, 1941 – July 4th, 1942. This area was defended by the
Waving Through the Fog…
Waving Through the fog The Fletcher makes a wonky arrow, The Green stands by…. Tearing-up the land! Beauty is obscured By beauty itself. The uncertainty
Courage (勇气 – Yong3 Qi4)
The steam from the pot builds pressure and the cauldron lid is lifted and dropped as a consequence. When someone has ‘courage’, their ‘measured strength’ is full of ‘inner power’ that is virtuous, correct, and upright.
