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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

W. H. Auden
Death, War, Men
Shield of Achilles (1955) "Epitaph for the Unknown Soldier"
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?