Though talk of war and death and such I do not wish to hear <br />To glorify war heroes we have the balladeer <br />The old men displaying their medals march on war memorial day <br />Though they look tired and weary now and they are old and gray. <br /> <br />They weep for comrades who died young in battles far away <br />Young men who were buried in mass graves their bones far from home lay <br />'Tis said they died in freedom's cause though many with that do not agree <br />Since any lessons have not been learned from man's war history. <br /> <br />Each time I listen to the news the headlines mostly bad <br />A suicide bombing in Palestine a car bombing in Baghdad <br />More atrocities with a direct link to terrorism to many it would seem <br />But to those who give their own lives to kill the fulfilment of a heroic dream. <br /> <br />Of suffering and deaths linked to war so much has been written and said <br />And wives and mothers in the World today still mourn their war dead <br />And still the soldiers come back home to a victory parade <br />For people who shoot at other people too much respect is paid.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-glorify-war-heroes/
