Ipswich Unitarian Meeting House
Founded in 1699 – Still active
Tag: remembrance
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Banners, Poppies and the Meaning of Remembrance
I. I suppose Byron’s phrase “those bloody banners” might, today, have a rather different meaning from that which he intended! He was referring to the blood-soaked banners of war, today it might be used by someone who is upset by the current craze for tying Union flags to lamp posts. Flags, or banners or standards,
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WAR AND NATURE, WAR AGAINST NATURE
The counterpoint of war and nature is one of the themes running through the poetry and the art that have emerged from war. The horrors of war, with all its senseless brutality, suffering and destruction, stand in hideous contrast to the life-force, the beauty and the restorative power of the natural world.
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