Prose & Poetry - War Poetry of S J Robinson - Epitaph
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Epitaph
They tried:
what more can be asked
By us who in their glorious freedom bask?
So we must fight and, willing,
face the task
So they,
our forebears,
may take rest at last
"Monkey meat" was U.S. slang for the canned beef and carrot ration.
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