<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=577549" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Old Doubting Thomas</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The old doubting Thomas is living today<br>And most of his school friends long with the dead lay<br>To the war cry of the leader they took up the gun<br>And they paid with their young lives for the war to be won</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The young doubting Thomas he was young back then<br>He did not march off to war with the other young men<br>And though in his honour never a parade<br>He feels no regret at the choice he had made.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The old doubting Thomas he feels rather sad<br>That in World war 1 he lost his young dad<br>To his widowed mother a devoted son<br>He promised her never to take up a gun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He still talks of the father he never did know<br>A war hero almost nine decades ago<br>The only regret in life he's ever had<br>Is that he never did know the one who was his dad.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The old doubting Thomas from time looking gray<br>His grandchildren have school going children today<br>Many of his school friends died in World War 2<br>And the dreams that they had were not meant to come true.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</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=577549" data-title="The Old Doubting Thomas de Francis Duggan" data-description="The old doubting Thomas is living today And most of his school friends long with the dead lay To the war cry of the leader they took up the gun And they paid with their young lives for the war to be won The young doubting Thomas he was young back..."></div> </div> </div>

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