Which Rupert Brooke poem opens "If I should die, think only this of me"?

such powerful words expressing how so many would have felt, I still struggle with the sense of sending so many to their doom.

baymax, I don’t think those who died in that war or the Second World War considered their lives to be lost in vain. Hoping to survive the war they were still offering up their lives for a cause they believed in, a cause greater than themselves. Freedom from tyranny.

Goodboy, I'm with you!

The Great War should have been the war that ended all wars alas man’s folly has meant that there will never be peace, those that died in the first and second world wars sacrificed themselves for us they will and should never be forgotten.

TRUE CANADIAN Laurel, I have mostly agreed with your previous comments, but I must disagree with these comments a iut immigrants. Unless you are an indigenous person of North America you True Canadian Laurel are an immigrant. Europeans are not true orth Americans they went there and killed and stole resources and land.

Sounds beautiful, but I sense a bit of Imperialistic pride in those words.

TRUE CANADIAN Laurel, AND dear heart, those of us who realise that Pro Peace needs to be our focus, with Respect to those that were conned and died. it is adhorrent that we still glorify the legal murder* of Men, women and children! * eg the Iran War that USA said we HAD to have to stop Nuclear Weapons being produced that was a Lie.

Clidge, I agree with you when it comes to WWII but WWI has never made much sense to me. Why were they really fighting? Because an archduke was assassinated?