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I have laid down my life as I laid down my gun the battle is over I don't know who won their side our side does anyone care when it's all  said and done? Long ago and far away at very the end of the hardest day when silence falls on the blood red, mud red, grass will anyone remember what came to pass? Young men die and old men weep for comrades lost and the memories they keep hugged to themselves till their time is done a long life haunted by the shadow of the gun. I have no name war took it from me a symbol, instead of the lad I used to be
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Oct 19, 2020
Oct 19, 2020 at 5:42 AM UTC
Blackbird
I have laid down my life as I laid down my gun the battle is over I don't know who won their side our side does anyone care when it's all  said and done? Long ago and far away at very the end of the hardest day when silence falls on the blood red, mud red, grass will anyone remember what came to pass? Young men die and old men weep for comrades lost and the memories they keep hugged to themselves till their time is done a long life haunted by the shadow of the gun. I have no name war took it from me a symbol, instead of the lad I used to be
It is 100 years since the unknown soldier was put in his tomb.
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Oct 19, 2020
Oct 19, 2020 at 5:42 AM UTC
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