Soldiers Lives Worth Less Than Politicians?

As we see, almost daily young men dying where politicians have sent them, Afghanistan at the moment, I think it is well worth rereading Chesterton's poem. He wrote it shortly after the death of his brother at the end of World War I.

Elegy in a Country Churchyard

The men that worked for England

They have their graves at home:

And bees and birds of England

About the cross can roam.

But they that fought for England,

Following a falling star,

Alas, alas for England

They have their graves afar.

And they that rule in England,

In stately conclave met,
Alas, alas for England,

They have no graves as yet.

By GK Chesterton

The Power Of The Rosary

Good Counsel had a great blog post on Monday, here is part of it;

A British soldier was saved by his rosary beads in Afghanistan when he stooped to pick them up and saw that he was next to a landmine. Glenn Hockton, 19, was on patrol in Helmand province, Afghanistan, when bent down to pick up his prayer beads after they fell off, Daily Express reported [last] Tuesday.It was then that he realised that he was standing close to a mine.“As he (Glenn) bent down to pick up his rosary to see if it was broken, he ­realised he was near a landmine.“He had to stand there for 45 terrifying minutes before his colleagues managed to get him,” Glenn’s mother Sheri Jones was quoted as saying.Nearly 65 years back, Glenn’s great-grandfather’s life was saved during the World War II, thanks to rosary beads. He survived a blast, which killed six of his platoon.Joseph “Sunny” Truman was with the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.“Grandad (Truman) was walking across a field with half a dozen of his platoon. He bent down to pick something up and was the only one to survive a sudden bomb blast. He had picked up a rosary,” said Truman’s grand-daughter Sheri.She said she was shocked when Glenn told her about the ­coincidence.

Secularists will so often look at Miracles in great old books such as The Secret of The Rosary, by St Louis De Montfort and make snide comments about 'people back then', but this is now! Our Lady of The Rosary, Pray for us!