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Always Ours - Harry PatchIn 1914, you were nothing more
than another brave Tommy in a pointless war.
Of the millions of men who faced cannons and bombs
at Cambrai or Ypres, Loos or the Somme,
you were never unique among comrades and friends,
who gave up there lives, or fought 'till the end.
But, then, as the last, you encompassed them all;
the remaining, the one who still didn’t fall.
You stood for all that were killed, and the horrors they saw,
for the hope of peace, and an end to all war.
Now you, the final, the last of the last
has gone to his Father; the torch has been passed.
You’ll be welcomed home with arms open wide
by both God and the soldiers who fought by your side.
All that you were was the simplest of men,
but the last to recall all those years ago, when
they sang songs in the trenches, sat under the stars,
you were the Last Fighting Tommy, and you’ll always be ours. :thumb141977134:
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