For your tomorrow we gave our today
This epitaph, composed by J M Edmonds, appears on war memorials at Kohima and elsewhere. The battle of Imphal-Kohima in 1944 succeeded in preventing a Japanese invasion of what is now Bangladesh. In Britain, the 11th November is called Armistice Day and marks the moment when fighting ceased in 1918. The lines ‘At the going…
Pie in the sky by and by
The phrase “pie in the sky by and by” comes from a socialist song of the late 19th century. It was further recorded during the ‘folk’ and ‘protest’ song wave of the 1950s and 60s. Originally its main thrust was to brush aside religious promises of paradise after death and focus instead on earthly hardship.…