Roger Waters - The Ballad of Bill Hubbard (Full Edit HD Audio)

I first posted this video in 2009 on my puniks2112 site.
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Harry Patch (The Last Tommy) died in July 2009. As the last surviving soldier to have experienced the horrors of the 1st world war trenches , he was 111 years old . Staunchly anti-war , his final years were characterised by a rising public profile , as he finally spoke of the horrors and futility of war . As a machine gunner , he would shoot the Germans legs , rather than kill them.
This song is a tribute by Roger Waters to Bill Hubbard ( a young man who didn't come back from the Somme) , and the memory of his last moments , forever carried by his friend Alf Razzel ( Raz) , who tells the story .
100 million people died in Europe in the 40 years from 1910 ........ to put that into context , we are all horrified that Hitler killed 1.5 million Jews during the holocaust. But wars averaged 2.5 million every year for 40 years , not a figure talked about much .
There is no glory in war , and who does it benefit in the end .................... only the bankers .......... but thats for another day.
For the first time this year there will be no representative from the 1st world war at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday, they are consigned to the history books . The world will be a sadder place without them , as war is now glorified thru' computer games and film .
As the Buddha once said " friendship is the only cure for hatred , the only guarantee of peace.
Hatred does not cease by hatred , but only by Love ; this is the eternal rule ."
Mohammed also said "Shall i not inform you of a better act than fasting , alms and prayers ? Making peace between one another : enmity and malice tear up heavenly rewards by the roots."
Jesus was also heard to say "You have heard that it was said to them of old : Thou shalt not kill , and whosoever shall kill , shall be in danger of the judgement."
"What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world , but looses his soul."
To the memory of Bill Hubbard , Alf Razzel , Harry Patch and all of their kind ................
" MAY GOODE BLESSIG THEE "
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