Soldier poets of the Great War (VIIIth and last): A grim prophecy by Joseph Leftwich

Posted By Thomas E. Ricks Friday, March 15, 2013 - 11:28 AM Share

This is pretty impressive to have written not long after the beginning of World War I:

And if we win,

And crush the Huns

In twenty years

We must fight their sons.

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Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military for the Washington Post from 2000 through 2008.

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