{"id":15521,"date":"2016-06-05T12:06:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T11:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/?p=15521"},"modified":"2020-06-08T07:20:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T06:20:19","slug":"sounding-the-retreat-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.memorialatpeninsula.org\/?p=15521","title":{"rendered":"Sounding Retreat 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sounding the retreat 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Prince Philip<\/strong><\/p>\n

Colonel-in-Chief<\/strong><\/p>\n

of<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Rifles<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Picture by kind permission of Anthony Bishop<\/p>\n

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A Rifleman to His Enemies<\/strong><\/p>\n

I<\/strong> am a Rifleman and I will come for you,<\/p>\n

I will disregard your fire, each frenzied round, each frantic shot,<\/p>\n

For if you show yourself to fight,<\/p>\n

Infernal day of Stygian night.<\/p>\n

Have faith that you will miss , and I will not,<\/p>\n

Y<\/strong>ou will slow me down, with hidden traps, and buried threat.<\/p>\n

And though with every driven yard I`ll doubt the road ahead,<\/p>\n

And with every measured stride, I`ll taste familiar dread,<\/p>\n

I`ll sound the advance and drive and march and see your challenge met.<\/p>\n

W<\/strong>here you are cruel and craven in your cowardice, I will be just,<\/p>\n

Where you have looted and bullied and cowed,<\/p>\n

I will empower and protect and see the Afghan proud,<\/p>\n

My only theft is fear, my levy only trust.<\/p>\n

I<\/strong> will stand in sombre salute, to the coffins you create,<\/p>\n

Console those you have bereaved and nurture those you maim,<\/p>\n

But I`ll not blind my thoughts with blame,<\/p>\n

Nor surrender my sole to hate.<\/p>\n

A<\/strong>nd when at home, I`ll touch with patient grace<\/p>\n

To cold apathy and gathered crowds the same,<\/p>\n

In certain knowledge that i will come again,<\/p>\n

To this fertile, futile, half forsaken place.<\/p>\n

I<\/strong> am swift of thought and bold of heart,Heed this warning i impart;<\/p>\n

I will come at you with everything I can,<\/p>\n

For I am and ever will be, a Rifle`s Man.<\/p>\n

By<\/p>\n

Captain John Barry <\/strong><\/p>\n

 The Rifles<\/p>\n

Composed in Patrol Base Silab, Afghanistan 2009<\/p>\n

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Pictures from Face Book and Google<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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