History repeats itself.

Hello All.
On April the 11th 1941, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel took the town of El Agheila and from there forged ahead to Tobruk. The siege of Tobruk lasted 240 days.
(This anonymous poem was blown by the wind into a slit trench at El Agheila during a heavy bombardment)
A SOLDIER- HIS PRAYER.
Stay with me God. The night is dark,
The night is cold: my little spark
Of courage dies,The night is long:
Be with me, God and make me strong.

I love a game, I love a fight.
I hate the dark: I love the light.
I love my child: I love my wife.
I am no coward, I love life.

Life with it's change of mood and shade,
I want to live. I'm not afraid,
But me and mine are hard to part:
Oh! unknown God,lift up my heart.

You stilled the waters at Dunkirk
And saved Your Servants. All your work
Wonderful dear God.You strode
Before us down that dreadful road.

We were alone,and hope had fled:
We loved our country and our dead,
And could not shame them:so we stayed
The course and were not much afraid.

Dear God,that nightmare road!And then
That sea! We got there -we were men .
My eyes were blind, my feet were torn,
My soul sang like a bird at dawn!

I knew that death is but a door.
I knew what we were fighting for:
Peace for the kids,our brothers freed,
A kinder world, a cleaner breed.

I'm but the son my mother bore,
A simple man, and nothing more,
But - God of strength and gentleness,
Be pleased to make me nothing less.

Help me O God,when Death is near,
To mock the haggard face of fear,
That when I fall -if fall if I must-
My soul may triumph in the dust.
Time don't change RBD