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Spine Tingling Charles Dance The Battle of the Somme 100 Year memorial

When the BBC broadcast this memorial service I was stopped in my tracks by this reading by Charles Dance, it gave me chills. The resonance of the sound and the atmosphere of the place and even the rain that fell all added to the moment. Fortunately I was able to rewind the TV and record it on my phone. The original was on the iPlayer but a year later I think it has gone and the only place you will find it online is now here on YouTube. Charles Dance reading Aftermath by Siegfried Sassoon - Have you forgotten yet? A very moving reading at the Somme 100 commemoration at Thiepval Have you forgotten yet?… For the world’s events have rumbled on since those gagged days, Like traffic checked while at the crossing of city-ways: And the haunted gap in your mind has filled with thoughts that flow Like clouds in the lit heaven of life; and you’re a man reprieved to go, Taking your peaceful share of Time, with joy to spare. But the past is just the same–and War’s a bloody game… Have you forgotten yet?… Look down, and swear by the slain of the War that you’ll never forget. Do you remember the dark months you held the sector at Mametz– The nights you watched and wired and dug and piled sandbags on parapets? Do you remember the rats; and the stench Of corpses rotting in front of the front-line trench– And dawn coming, dirty-white, and chill with a hopeless rain? Do you ever stop and ask, ‘Is it all going to happen again?’ Do you remember that hour of din before the attack– And the anger, the blind compassion that seized and shook you then As you peered at the doomed and haggard faces of your men? Do you remember the stretcher-cases lurching back With dying eyes and lolling heads–those ashen-grey Masks of the lads who once were keen and kind and gay? Have you forgotten yet?… Look up, and swear by the green of the spring that you’ll never forget