Handcuffed, manacled and blindfolded <br />he stood before a firing squad, <br />awaiting the prescribed military execution. <br />A colour sergeant, inappropriately named asked: <br />'Do you have anything to say before the sentence <br />of the tribunal is carried out? ' <br />Breaker Morant replied, 'Shoot straight you bastards.' <br /> <br />Addendum: Morant requested his blindfold be removed, <br />it was.<br /><br />jerry hughes<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/breaker-morant-2/
