I have been watching the war map slammed up for advertising in front of the newspaper office.
Buttons—red and yellow buttons—blue and black buttons—are shoved back and forth across the map.
A laughing young man, sunny with freckles,
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This is a testimony to the seriousness and great sacrifices of war, the deaths and injuries, the great cost. Such an irony it is to have a 'laughing young man' moving the buttons on the war map - buttons that show the progression of deaths and wounds of thousands!