Once I saw a black & white photo <br />taken by a Japanese tourist <br />of London schoolboys <br />walking briskly to grammar school. <br /> <br />No planes over London yet, <br />although German troops were blitzing <br />through Poland that September afternoon, <br />and Warsaw schoolboys were <br />running pellmell to bomb shelters, <br />Jew and Christian alike. <br /> <br />Grainy photos taken on Polish soil <br />by news photographers <br />were of victims dead and dying. <br />The photo of English schoolboys <br />was of victims yet to be!<br /><br />Michael Pruchnicki<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/schoolboys-in-1939/