My favorite wartime poem is actually "I Have a Rendezvous With Death" by Alan Seeger, my second, "An Ode of Remembrance" by Lawrence Binyon, my third, "The Soldier" by Rupert Brooke. Flanders Fields weighs in at a distant fourth.
All in all, everyone treats the Battle of Beruna Ford as a resounding victory. There was another side for the families of the fallen, and I wanted to capture that too. In fact, I did a short fanfic story about a fox who was frozen into a statue by Jadis and carried to her castle garden. As he was one of her earliest victims, when he came home triumphant from the Battle at Beruna Ford, he found his elderly wife who had grown old waiting for him. She died of shock when she realized it was him as young and spry as he had been years ago. And he found to his horror that all his friends except an old hare serving as vicar had died. When the fox was found sitting thoroughly sozzled on a bar stool at the local inn, the old hare took him home, got him sober, and convinced him not to throw away the gift of life. And he became an adviser to Queen Lucy whom, word has it, knew a lot about tragedy and sacrifice.Statistics: Posted by EveningStar — Thu Feb 21, 2019 3:06 am
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