Requiem For An Air Gunner

A memorial plaque of the war route in Makkum contains a requiem for an Airgunner.

The pain has stopped, for I am dead,
My time on earth is done.
But in a hundred years from now
I’ll still be twenty-one.

My brief, sweet life is over
My eyes no longer see,
No summer walks, no Christmas trees,
No pretty girls for me.

I’ve got the chop, I’ve had it.
My nightly ops are done.
Yet in another hundred years
I’ll still be twenty-one.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Cor Keuning