Our young men shall see visions

[sovay]

If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied.
—Rudyard Kipling, "Common Form" (1918)

Comments

[sovay]

I'm absolutely sure he did; this is dated after his own son's death, and he was never a careless writer, he cannot but have meant that resonance.

Yes.

"Have you news of my boy Jack?"