Chuck Bryant

Well, sure.

Yeah, most of it.

Yeah.

I guess it was, you know, they felt like they did good work.

They wanted to do more.

Yeah, but guys like you and I would have said, how about we don't do that again?

All right, so William Howard Russell is writing about this thing like we talked about.

He is the one that ends up, and he did some beautiful writing as far as that kind of stuff goes, but he is the one who ended up inspiring Tennyson's poem.

Maybe I'll read this last line at least.

It's a pretty good example.

At the distance of 1,200 yards, the whole line of the enemy belched forth from 30 iron mouths, a flood of smoke and flame through which hissed the deadly balls.

Their flight was marked by instant gaps in our ranks, by dead men and horses, by steeds flying wounded or riderless across the plain.

Yeah, pretty good stuff.

Yeah, which was when he was Poet Laureate of England in 1850.

I think it was about six weeks after that battle is when he published The Charge of the Light Brigade and The Examiner initially.

Should we read this last, the second stanza?

Why don't you take this one?

Forward, the light brigade!

Was there a man dismayed?

Not though the soldier knew someone had blundered.