I am pleased that people are discussing the "Body Bags" sequence, and Alicia is right--Sassoon does inform them indirectly, just as he more directly informs some of the "1916" sequence that Catherine mentioned. He was not a great poet, to be sure, but he was very good in a limited way and did serve both humanity and poetry well, in his poems and memoirs and in his mentorship of Wilfred Owen, who eventually surpassed him as a poet.
David is correct in saying that the discussion on Gazebo has turned rather bizarre, and I did respond there to correct some false statements that Nigel Holt, late of this board, made about my political beliefs, about which he knows nothing, or less than that. Tim and Alan have known me for a long time, and I am sure that--whatever they might say about me--they would never call me a Republican.
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