Our changing world.

I came into the world; Sunday September
the seventeenth nineteen thirty three,
I only can only record this event through
recollection of what my mother told me.
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The hour undoubtedly inconvenient for
the attendant practitioner of midwifery,
My existance since seems to have direct
association with this event in perpetuity.
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My arrival in the small hours;in customary
parlance not unduly laboured I was told,
But at five thirty in the morning I became
the youngest in the family household.
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Those early years passed really quite
peacefully as far as I can remember,
But the world started to change forever
year nineteen fourty, month september.
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My father was born in nineteen hundred,
a farmer,exempted by profession and age,
His two brothers older than him serving
in world war one, both of them teenage.
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One demobilised wounded in Belgium
and having to have his leg amputated,
The other brother died of sickness in
Mesopotamia his illness not negated.
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The issue of all this being; peace had
been earned; but at a ghastly price,
Who could predict after the armistice
world war would occurr twice.
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The second war waged against the
same enemy was finally won,
Lessons again not learned and our
planet even more troublesome.
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Born in a favourable period I was
never ever engaged in strife,
My conclusion ? it is indefensible
to wage war and take life.
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I salute however the personnel who
have responded to the call to serve,
I am in awe of their courageous
dedication. I've not got the nerve.
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In memory of those who have and
are still sacrificing their lives,
They did and are still doing it so
that civilised humanity survives.
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