O’Conall Street

El Alamo is nestled in the heart of Texas. The famous last stand of a band of brothers and this week Hillary’s own. Very late in the day some eminent advocates for the former first lady have piled in with their own Black Eyed Peas appeal to the wavering Democrats in Ohio and Texas.

Big Stephen at Weber Shandwick had this one ready for me on my return from the Western Front. The lad’s (Feraghal O’Boyle, Ronan O’Brien, David Leach, Fiachra O’Brien, Michael McLoughlin, Aidan Culhane and myself) are back at the day job with a weekend full of memories. Somehow youth has never seemed more precious and war more tragic. This is not the time to take a position on any particular conflict but it is worth remembering that for every 100 soldiers in an army today less then five will fight on the front line. Back in 1916 90 would have experienced the sharp end of close quarter fighting.

At the Menin Gate last night at 8.00pm the local fire brigade sounded the last post as they have done every night since Nov 11th 1918. Only Hitler interrupted them for a brief few years, but the day the Nazi’s left the firemen returned. They will be there tonight and tomorrow night again remembering those who gave their tomorrow’s so we can have our today’s.

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