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.... A. Sailor

We might have lived forever; or maybe not at all. 
But we've been dead for decades, and you'll find us on the wall. 
We were young once long ago; but then we quickly aged; 
We were only children, when that awful war was waged. 

We were raised by Disney, and by Captain Kangaroo; 
We weren't meant to end our lives, being led and fooled by you. 
Just why was it you betrayed us, and why was it that we fought? 
What was so important, that you left our bones to rot? 

Why was it so important? This war you seemed to crave. 
You sent our youth to die in vain, so young; so fresh; so brave. 
You played your party politics and closely checked the polls. 
Then bought your place in history with our hearts, our youth, our souls. 

Will mankind never learn it, that war will cure no ills; 
It deludes us, it demeans us, and worst of all it kills. 
There is no country anywhere worth all this death and waste. 
When will we learn to let war go, when will we lose the taste. 
Perhaps one day the world will change, and no longer care to fight. 
Perhaps we'll all be brothers and the future will be bright. 
I see a future for our race, when no one dies in vain. 
When young men don't go off to war, when no one bears that pain 

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