'Take your pick, and please be quick' <br />The air, the land or the sea? <br />Just how it was back in World War Two <br />When young men joined the Military. <br /> <br />The Bevin Boys - was an extra option <br />But this was by ballot, no time for chat. <br />And instead of a place on the battlefield <br />Men worked in mines with smell of a rat. <br /> <br />So those were the 'got to do it' days <br />Objectors were four-feather guys. <br />Young men conscripted, that was that. <br />No place for wherefores and whys. <br /> <br />'Take your pick, and please be quick' <br />Just how it was, if you were a Brit.<br /><br />Joyce Hemsley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/conscription-world-war-ii/
