38 01 Opening with 'Infantry Columns' aka 'Boots' by Rudyard Kipling, and a Bit About Him

[@ryry8577]

28 years later!

[@seamusodwyer2426]

Can’t bloody wait man

[@bluecheese20401]

28 years later and I'm back to this

[@CarthageForever]

My personal antidote to "Boots" was "If". "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you."

[@Redacted724]

Homie was back in SERE

[@sting2death2]

Very interesting, thanks for the analysis on the poem, powerful and depressing. I also appreciate you reading out the poem itself.

[@Kazuya720]

This is scary!

[@txspyrate4446]

if the poem was published in 1903, how can you say it was about ww1?

[@ginjaico_6132]

I think that the poem is written about the Boer War. But Kipling was critical of the British generalship through WW1.

[@adambell9188]

@@ginjaico_6132 Yes about the Boer War, the British Army force marched about 60,000 men across South Africa. Kipling was very unhappy with how ill prepared the British Army was for pretty much everything during the war.

[@tepeyac10]

This is some hardcore shit

[@erichoiland1814]

“ No discharge in the war!” Except for ammunition discharging

[@sirrusly]

Cheap