Current Connections

After reading “A March in the Ranks Hard-prest and the Road Unknown” I felt a strong connection to today’s events with the many conflicts occurring all over the world, concerning the United States and many other countries.
Many of these countries are unknown to the people being sent to them to fight. They have never had to live in that type of climate and all of the sudden they are trained to live there for years at a time, following many “roads unknown”. Along with the unknown aspect, the fact that this narrator is observing crowds, people, all injured and fighting, trying to sleep when they can, dying all around him, its all very reminiscent of what’s going on, soldiers are dying everyday in Iraq, Afghanistan, and many other places. Soldiers are also watching their comrades die, watching the enemy die, not knowing if they deserved to die or not, watching people they don’t even know die, and just continuing on. There is hardly a break for fighting soldiers, whenever they find a moment of rest, the time comes again to “fall in” and march out again, fighting the “good fight” and defending their country. There are also many soldiers fighting who have just barely reached the age where they are able to fight, or maybe even younger, “mere lads” in the warrior world and they are out fighting and dying. They fight their ways through, “wild red flame, and clouds of smoke” fighting to see each other and the people they are fighting. They are “ever in darkness marching, on in the ranks” on and on everyday, waiting for the conflict to end. They are on the “unknown road still marching”.

The Beginning

Test Blog for all those out there who are going to read this, I don't count this as my first, but now I know how!

~Sam