{"id":1755,"date":"2015-05-21T19:18:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T19:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2015-05-21T19:18:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T19:18:26","slug":"those-little-boats-goliaths-faced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/those-little-boats-goliaths-faced\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Little Boats Goliaths Faced"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those little boats Goliath’s faced
\nCommandeered and commanded by brave men
\nWho risked their lives to save others lives
\nSo they could fight again.<\/p>\n

Dunkirk saw the flames and heard the screams
\nNot since Moses parted the Red Sea
\nSo the Israelite’s could escape from the Egyptians
\nSuch a miracle en masse the world see.<\/p>\n

There were angles looking down those days
\nOf derring do, manliness and romance
\nWhen those who had hope risked all for those with none:
\nTheir rescue was more than mere chance!<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The Little Boats that sailed the chanell during the evacuation of Dunkirk faced down the odds. Itwas a miracle the operation succeeded. One of those rescued was my granduncle Tom Reilly, who lost his legs and arms in the fighting before dying in military hospital in 1953<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those little boats Goliath’s faced Commandeered and commanded by brave men Who risked their lives to save others lives So they could fight again. Dunkirk saw the flames and heard the screams Not since Moses parted the Red Sea So the Israelite’s could escape from the Egyptians Such a miracle …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,213,1904],"tags":[1906,1905,1907,1569,1424,1909,1908],"class_list":["post-1755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-great-war","category-war","category-world-war-ii","tag-dunkirk","tag-dunkirque","tag-evacuation","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-hitler","tag-the-little-boats","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-sj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/a-war-we-do-not-see\/","url_meta":{"origin":1755,"position":0},"title":"A War We Do Not See","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"28th July 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Preoccupied with Gaza,a cold war in the Spratley islands where China pushes borders as Rissia is doing in Ukraine, bar on a martimime and not a land basis, is ignored by all, including the Irish left. 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