AS YOU WERE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 113, 30 April 1926, Page 2

AS YOU WERE.

(To the Editor). Sir, —According to “Mons,” it is pathetic to think Anzao Day should find only. 18 faithful stalwarts in all Hastings with memories or the sense of gratitude. Well, “Mons,” you are welcome to your bit of ceremony, but seriously, old man, did you not see enough of the sordid side of the war to get the deadly sickening of it ingrained into your very soul? 11 you did, your memory would require no such stimulant as a church parade to reconstruct in your ftiind some of that real mateshio which was one of th® bright spots always shining through the war’s murk. Perchance last Sunday in an Elysian field, where ever? man wears stars, and where “buckshee*’ and leave are unlimited, a grand parade was held. If the officer of the day on his rounds had enquired of the massed ranks of uniformed shades whether there was any message for the earth that day, the swelling murmur of reply might have resolved itself into something like this:—“Look after our families and ensure that our children shall know no war. but don’t weep for us for there are no strikes or mortgages here.” But whether there was anything about ceremonies. I question.—l am, etc., BATTLE OF WAZZIR. Hastings, 29/4/26.