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In our hearts we
see your smile - in our hearts we love you still.
In our minds you
dwell with us and in our hearts you always will!
Oh! So young and
off to war to help to keep your country free.
To make us proud
always of you - you marched away with your Company!
To foreign lands
you sailed away - where bombs and trenches became your home.
Comrades dying all
around - feeling frightened - left all alone!
Wounded soldiers
all around you - arms and limbs scattered round about.
Noise and
confusion, mud and dirt - "Mercy! Mercy!" heard them shout!
Just a boy -
alone and scared, confused and numb - disorientated
Drifting from your
own Platoon - from reality - totally alienated!
Some time later
found alone - shaking, cold and quite shell-shocked.
No heard excuses
or Doctors sought - but into a bunker he is locked!
Higher Ranks no
tolerance made! "He'll be shot at dawn!" is what they said.
"A coward or
deserter no good for us!" So they stood him up and shot him dead!
The letter came to
give the news - our child lies dead in some foreign ground!
His dreams no more
to be fulfilled - his voice no more will make sweet sound!
They say we must
not speak his name - he brought disgrace to his own Country!
This shell-shocked
child of seventeen - not so long ago sitting on a Mother's knee!
When war was over
- heroes returned. Some with medals and wounds galore.
But many still lay
where they fell - to be remembered nevermore!
But what of him
they said brought shame?? Generations came and went
Before recognising
he too was brave and that for his land his life was spent!
Forgotten men and
boys alike - they fought to keep their Country free!
Ah yes!! Too
late now we honour them! May the rest in peace eternally!
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