How  will you fare sonny,
how will you fare in the far off winter night,
when you sit by a fire in an old man’s chair,
and your neighbors talk of the fight?

Will  you slink away as it were from a blow,
your old head shamed and bent?
Or will you say “I was not the first to go.
But I went--thank God I went.”
 

  --An old World War I Recruiting poster
     (in a museum in Chelmsford England)
 

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