I feel so sorry for the solders on the ground, they are going to go through hell now, their lives as they knew them are over. And this has nothing to do with taking sides.
My dad always taught me not to hit someone who is already on the ground.
I heard it from a man born in Yasi in 1907. It´s from another epoch. And maybe my English translation from his Russian translation has gone far from the Romanian original...
And I suppose there are similar proverbs about postwar heroes in every language. In Russia we call it "to wave one's fists after the fight".
My dictionary offers a more or less equivalent in English: "shut the stable door after the horse has bolted"...
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Date: 2016-07-16 07:43 pm (UTC)And I suppose there are similar proverbs about postwar heroes in every language. In Russia we call it "to wave one's fists after the fight".
My dictionary offers a more or less equivalent in English: "shut the stable door after the horse has bolted"...