My Boy Jack

rudyard
what did four years in the trenches
of the first world war produce for England
where was the epitome of valor to be found?

did it form a man of the greatest personal courage and honor?
what did the highest levels of loyalty to one's mission
and utter devotion to one's countrymen
forged by intense sufferings and bitter toil of war cause
a hero?

our flag, his uniform, your coats of arms and whose heraldry?
how noble a thing, how admirable!

enter Adolf
and the play begins

the summation of the war to end all wars
the product of vain glory
the breeder of consumate hatred
the general father of all lies

it appears that dying is what your son Jack lived for