| If you remember, on the flight home Danny comes to briefly and thinking he's about die wants to clear his conscience and so says that the poem was by Yeats.
Why wouldn't a soldier of WWII know of a poem from WWI? I was born many years later than that and know the works of Sigfried Sassoon and others.
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"Do not forget your dogs of war, your big guns, which are the most-to-be respected arguments of the rights of kings."
- Frederick the Great, King of Prussia  |