By those interested in war history war history is read <br />But the winners write the war history or so it is said <br />That is how it is and will always be <br />What is true to one is not to another that's how it seems to me <br />Of war and war heroes many stories are written and many poems to recite <br />And mostly of war winners that war writers stories do write <br />And readers believe what they want to believe <br />And the mothers of the war dead for their dead children grieve <br />In war as in life 'tis the winners who count <br />And the stories of losers to little amount <br />For the dead war heroes many a parade <br />And far too many films of war have been made <br />And 'tis mostly the winners write the war history <br />That is how it is and always will be.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/by-those-interested-in-war-history/
