Where do dreams come from?
Zulu Often, I wonder where my dreams begin, this evening's dream about fighting a battle may have come from reading about two battles of the era in question, Isandawana and Rorke's Drift . There is a line of thought among historians that Lt. Ardendorf of the Natal Native Contingent was not in the fight at Rorke's Drift; he passed through on his way to his farm to warn them. There is also a large volume of reports stating he stayed to the end. Here I verge from the usual concept he stayed out of choice; he had no choice in my mind. He'd rode 10 miles, and his horse was tiring, he knew even on a horse an Impi of Zulu warriors would run him down; his best option was to stay in a defensive position with an armed force. Bravery has no value . Months before Sir Stanley Baker died, he passed a pawn shop in his area, and came across Lt. John Chard' s Victoria Cross ; thinking it was an imitation he walked on, it wasn't an imitation, like many of the men Chard had t...