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They seek help from their countrymen and thirty million men send
24 pounds only. Then they decide to go to the Master-singer
Alfred Tennyson to make him aware of the pitiable condition of the
men he has crowned in his poem. They are really going through
the jaws of death, not because of heavy Russian artillery but
because of lack of shelter and food. The old soldier requests
Tennyson to right to be continued after the poem and leave. Out
of anger, he writes wonderful verses for the eternal heroes.
However, history is not certain whether this conversation really
happened or Kipling wrote this as a metaphor.
Then Kipling requests all the people of England, whose children
recite When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made.
to stand by the side of the Light Brigade.
Similarly, we, 170 million people of Bangladesh, are proud of our
freedom fighters, by whose hard work we won the War of
Independence and got the absolute power over a banner of red
and green. Many of them martyred many of them died but many
of them are still alive. Hence it is my appeal to the people of
Bengal to stand by our heroic sons, who are no less than the light
brigade.