The Last Post, impeccably played by Melissa Venema at an Andre Rieu concert in 2008. The talented Dutch musician was only 13 when she performed and today is 31 having released several albums during her career.
To further underline how talented she is, Melissa released her first album at age eleven. Most of us were worrying about whether we’d make friends at secondary school at that age. She has now released a total of four albums, Melissa voor U in 2006, Melissa in Concert in 2009, Melissa from the Heart 2010 and The Trumpet is My Voice in 2012. The albums span several genres, including spiritual, classical and pop which demonstrates how broad her repertoire is.
Australia today finds itself in a bad place and Anzac Day commemorations on the 25th of April will impose an even more sombre mood across the nation in the wake of prolonged attacks on our military by Labor and Liberals. Their latest victim, Ben Roberts Smith VC, will be attending an Anzac ceremony to mourn our fallen on Saturday and wondering why his valiant efforts in battle have been so excoriated by the political class and sections of the legacy media.
Vale Australia…..but there will be no RIP for treacherous NWO politicians and their media ilk.
Story from Gil May:
The Last Post Origins – Fact or Fiction, but it is a good yarn https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/did-the-last-post-originate-on-an-american-civil-war-battlefield/
I suppose some of you are familiar with this story – for those who aren’t, perhaps this may add an extra and special dimension to this familiar tune.
If any of you have ever been to a military funeral in which The Last Post was played, this brings out a new meaning of it.
Here is something everyone should know. Until I read this, I didn’t know.
We have all heard the haunting song, ‘The Last Post.’
It’s the song that gives us the lump in our throats and usually tears in our eyes.
But, do you know the story behind the song?
If not, I think you will be interested to find out about its humble Beginnings.
Reportedly, it all began in 1862 during the American Civil War, when Union Army Captain Robert Ellicombe was with his men near Harrison’s Landing inVirginia. The Confederate Army was on the other side of the narrow strip of land.
During the night, Captain Ellicombe heard the moans of a soldier who lay severely wounded on the field. Not knowing if it was a Union or Confederate soldier, the Captain decided to risk his life and bring the stricken man back for medical attention.
Crawling on his stomach through the gunfire, The Captain reached the stricken soldier and began pulling him towards his encampment.
When the Captain finally reached his own lines, he discovered it was actually a Confederate soldier, but the soldier was dead………
The Captain lit a lantern and suddenly caught his breath and went numb with shock. In the dim light, he saw the face of the soldier……..
It was his own son. The boy had been studying music in the South when the war broke out.
Without telling his father, the boy enlisted in the Confederate Army.
The following morning, heartbroken, the father asked permission of his superiors to give his son a full military burial, despite his enemy status.
His request was only partially granted.
The Captain had asked if he could have a group of Army band members play a funeral dirge for his son at the funeral.
The request was turned down since the soldier was a Confederate.
But, out of respect for the father, they did say they could give him only one musician. The Captain chose a bugler.
He asked the bugler to play a series of musical notes he had found on a piece of paper in the pocket of the dead youth’s uniform.
This wish was granted.
The haunting melody, we now know as ‘The Last Post’ used at military funerals was born.
The words are:
Day is done.
Gone the sun.
From the lakes
From the hills.
From the sky.
All is well.
Safely rest.
God is nigh.
Fading light.
Dims the sight.
And a star.
Gems the sky.
Gleaming bright.
From afar.
Drawing nigh.
Falls the night…
Thanks and praise.
For our days.
Neath the sun
Neath the stars.
Neath the sky
As we go.
This we know.
God is nigh.
I too have felt the chills while listening to ‘The Last Post’
But I have never seen all the words to the song until now.
I didn’t even know there was more than one verse. I also never knew the story behind the song and I didn’t know if you had either so I thought I’d pass it along.
I now have an even deeper respect for the song than I did before.
Remember Those Lost and Harmed While Serving Their Country.
*Also Remember Those Who Have Served And Returned: And for those presently serving in the Armed Forces.*
Immigration is replacing us at a rate never seen before and lock step with Canada, the US and European Union. Currently at 3500 a day in Oz and nowhere to put any of them or need of them at all just prop up an almost bankrupt economy. According to this video Oz has had 12.6 million immos dumped upon our pristine shores since 2008. The only way to restore things is simply to press reverse on the ‘vid’ until Oz capacity is fixed. Oz is a desert without the recourses to support more than 26 million, cant afford it!
In case of dud links added a few extra of a this very informative video about the ruined state of our overrun nation and the need to abandoned ballast in order just to stay afloat. 1 red dot=100 people
htt ps://seed171.bitchute.com/WkGzBRajownD/XSRg1sOm5CnA.mp4
Bitchute up to Win 10 on Brave add blocker
htt ps://old.bitchute.com/video/XSRg1sOm5CnA/
or search; BC: Immigration Chart Animation To EU Australia Canada and US in Eye Popping Animated Chart = Invasion
2008-2024 Immigration
AU: 12.6 million
EU:12.1 million
CA: 16.7 million
US illegals 2020-2024: 14.5 million
Partly right Joe, poppies grow in fields of blood.
Not sure about on the beach but.
Commenter duck
I thought the British sent the surplus boys to guard the poppy fields as with Afghanistan more recently, that’s why people wear the poppy.
There’s another poppy that’s HW Bush and now he’s an aircraft carrier parked next to Gerald Ford, guarding the enriched uranium.
The systems of world government are evidently UNBREAKABLE, they can only bend a little.
What a combination, two of the top evil-doers in American history trying to seize all of future Zion, when will Bunnings start doing bunkers.
( Random notes: USS Richard M Nixon doesn’t exist and USS Jimmy Carter is a submarine. )
The British sent the ANZAC’s to the wrong beach, a reminder for the young to what happens when a country is attached to empire.
The part about our ANZACS that’s most valuable and which I most treasure and celebrate is the spirit of Johnny Simpson and his donkey. It’s how we used to be, before we wuz castrated by political correctness and the every man for himself and everyone’s got a right to screw you syndrome.
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Otherwise, the official Gallipoli story is a con job by the guv’nors. Our kids were sacrificed and set up with Mission Impossible by those who pretended they luved us all. Indeed, our boys and girls died bravely and honourably, but needlessly. And some would like us to forget that latter part.
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Respect. We owe it to our boys and girls. It’s good to see some of our kids today recognising at least that much. And that means all is not lost and in vain.
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We will and must remember them!
On Saturday as Australians remember the ANZACs and politicians delight in their own delusions, Douglas Macgregor ponders are “The Straits of Hormuz: America’s Gallipoli?”
https://macgregorwarrior.substack.com/p/the-straits-of-hormuz-americas-gallipoli
I’m crying
it is a haunting melody that reaches into the heart
But the back story… as I look at my grown son… has bought me to tears
A line from Smedley:
“Looking back, Woodrow Wilson was re-elected president in 1916 on a platform
that he had “kept us out of war” and on the implied promise that he would “keep us
out of war.” Yet, five months later he asked Congress to declare war on Germany.”
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Wilson was crooked, let the Federal Reserve in, then cried crocodile tears.
Under Wilson, Spanish flu 1919
Trump was elected 100 years later, 2016
Under Trump, CoV ID 2019
“Interesting times”
US civil war – engineered from Europe
“War Is a Racket” by Smedley Butler, a highly decorated U.S. Marine Corps Major General.
Only about 30 pages long, so not a time-waster like most books.
https://www.heritage-history.com/site/hclass/secret_societies/ebooks/pdf/butler_racket.pdf#:~:text=General%20Smedley%20D.%20Butler%20(1881%2D1940)%2C,the%20time%20of%20his%20death%2C
He died about a year before Pearl Harbour.
thank you for writing about the origin of The Last Post much appreciated
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