Soldiers who wish to be a hero
Soldiers who wish to be a hero
Original Text
unlocated (a US Army latrine). Printed in Paul Fussell, Poetic Meter & Poetic Form, rev. edn. (McGraw-Hill, 1979): 56.
1Soldiers who wish to be a hero
2Are practically zero.
3But those who wish to be civilians,
4Jesus, they run into millions.
Publication Start Year
1941
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
RPO 1999.
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