He always wears his war medals on his coat of them he feels so proud <br />And he has a hearing problem the reason he talks so loud <br />He says I'm a World war hero of which some don't wish to know <br />Of a battle fought in Europe more than six decades ago. <br /> <br />I often see him walking in the park or shopping complex with his long term wife <br />Devoted to him even in old age they have lived a long life <br />When he started talking of his war years I could not bear with him long <br />Though he is the inspiration for the making of this song. <br /> <br />I do not doubt he means well or in his young years he was brave <br />But far too many of his comrades went to an early grave <br />To me war is antiquated and it never solves anything <br />Though only of war heroes old war balladeers do sing. <br /> <br />He thinks he fought for freedom who told to him the lie <br />For so called freedom young men go to war and for so called freedom young men die <br />Twenty six million people in refugee camps what sort of freedom have they <br />And Human rights abuses rampant in the World of today. <br /> <br />On Anzac Day as usual he will be at the front of the parade <br />And he will love the adulation when much of him is made <br />With his war medals upon his coat for everyone to see <br />He may well impress some people but not the cynical like me.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-war-hero-3/
