image:A man cries out over his brother’s body at Yarmouk hospital, after Maj. Gen. Wael al-Rubaei, director of the National Security Ministry’s operations room, and his driver were assassinated by two carloads of gunmen in a drive-by shooting on their way to work, in Baghdad’s Mansour district in Iraq Monday, May 23, 2005. (AP Photo/Mohammed Uraibi)
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On Passing the New Menin Gate
by Siegfried Sassoon
Who will remember, passing through this Gate,
The unheroic Dead who fed the guns?
Who shall absolve the foulness of their fate,
Those doomed, conscripted, unvictorious ones?
Crudely renewed, the Salient holds its own.
Paid are its dim defenders by this pomp;
Paid, with a pile of peace-complacent stone,
The armies who endured that sullen swamp.
Here was the world’s worst wound. And here with pride
‘Their name liveth for evermore’ the Gateway claims.
Was ever an immolation so belied
As these intolerably nameless names?
Well might the Dead who struggled in the slime
Rise and deride this sepulchre of crime.
