He was just seventeen and four months,
The son of the humble peasant,
Recruited to be the cook in the barracks, but,
Given two grenades to destroy two machine guns,
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To confer the highest order, of military honor. Say No to war..... nice poem..10 but if thrust upon fight for and show it as won nothing dearer than motherland foe is foe even if he is friend
So true, Veeraiyah. A strog message expressed so well. The senselessness of war. I hope and somewhere deep inside i am convinced that this time of mindless barbarism is soon to end. The world perhaps needed the images captured the stories engraved for the stupidity of war never to re-occur. I am praying for it all to end soon Please pray along (Please read my short poem titled world peace on my first page)
It's heart rending to see the young lad die.Can any amount military honor bring his life back? SAY NO TO WAR Is a fitting heading.I wish at least such poems opens the eyes of the war mongers. Thanks and wishes.
war for whatever reason is murder! good poetry!