<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384636" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Khaki Boys Who Were Not At The Front</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! it is not just the men who face the guns,<br>Not the fighters at the Front alone, to-day<br>Who will bring the longed-for close to the bloody fray, for those<br>Could not carry on that fray without the ones<br>Who are working at war's problems far away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>You are all our splendid heroes in the strife,<br>And we class you with the warriors maimed and scarred,<br>Though you never have been near enough the battle din to hear,<br>While you laboured in the dull routine of life<br>In your khaki suits with sleeves that are not barred.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>You have offered up yourselves to save the world;<br>You have felt the abnegation of the Christ:<br>And whatever work you do is a noble work and true;<br>Though it be not done with banners all unfurled,<br>You will find it has, in sight of God, sufficed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>While you carry back no medals when you go,<br>Not without you had the fighters borne war's brunt:<br>So just lift your heads uncowed, for your country will be proud<br>And its lasting love and honour will bestow<br>On the khaki boys who were not at the Front.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox">Ella Wheeler Wilcox</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384636" data-title="The Khaki Boys Who Were Not At The Front de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="Oh! it is not just the men who face the guns, Not the fighters at the Front alone, to-day Who will bring the longed-for close to the bloody fray, for those Could not carry on that fray without the ones Who are working at war's problems far away. ..."></div> </div> </div>

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