Well, having utterly failed to find a copy of the poem I was going to post (serves me right for waiting until the last minute to seek it out really) I've decided to fall back on Eric Bogle's other WWI song (he has 3 great ones, 'And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda' and 'No Mans Land' (more commonly known as Green Fields of France or Willie McBride).
This one is called 'Gift of Years' and is from the point of view of a veteran going back for the 75th anniversary of Gallipoli (the song starts at about 3:30 but the intro is worth listening to as well).
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