They ask me where I've been
And what I've done and seen
But what can I reply
Who knows it wasn't I,
But someone just like me,
Who went across the sea,
And with my head and hands
Killed men in foreign lands...
Though I must bear the blame
Because he bore my name.
-Wilfred Wilson Gibson-
World War I
*not an original Edenia poem
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