[All armies are the same . . .] by Ernest Hemingway at Old Poetry

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All armies are the same
Publicity is fame
Artillery makes the same old noise
Valor is an attribute of boys
Old soldiers all have tired eyes
All soldiers hear the same old lies
Dead bodies always have drawn flies

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by Ernest Hemingway

1899-1961, written in 1922
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