'We answered to the call to arms, unquestioning and blind, <br />We trusted to the promises of those we left behind. <br />We gave our lives ungrudgingly. we did not flinch nor quail, <br />Strong in the splendid faith we held that justice must prevail, <br />And as we drew our latest breath in sorrow and in pain, <br />This faith upheld us to the last: 'We did not die in vain.'<br /><br />Edward Harrington<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-dead-come-home-excerpt/
