From Faiza

I found nothing more beautiful than this poem, written by an American writer, thus making it a popular, folk song, at the time of World War 1…but I see it a poem that fits all wars…. Alfred Brian (1915), by the title:  I Didn't Raise My Son To Become A Soldier… Ten million soldiers went to war, They might never come back. Ten million mothers' hearts are sure to break For sons who died in vain… I heard a mother, her head bowed in sadness, In her years of loneliness, Muttering through her tears: I didn't raise my son to be a soldier, I raised him to be my pride and joy, Who would dare put a gun on his shoulder, To kill another mothers' beloved son?