Our young men shall see visions

[sovay]

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

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They ask me where I've been,
And what I've done and seen.
But what can I reply
Who know it wasn't I,
But someone just like me,
Who went across the sea
And with my head and hands
Killed men in foreign lands...
Though I must bear the blame,
Because he bore my name.
~Wilfred Gibson, "Back"