World War 2

[CJ242]

My 10 year old daughter is having 'Evacuation Day' at school next week.
Her homework is to find a WW2 poem and learn it off by heart to recite to the class.
I have searched but I am having trouble finding a fairly short one that she will be able to memorise. If anyone has any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated.

[Count-A-Strong]

This one isn't too long
http://www.world-war-2.info/poems/poems_32.php

[Buenchico]

Some of the poems from the Terezin concentration camp might be suitable (particularly one of those written by children):
http://www.sccs.swart...etry/wwii/poetry.html

Chris

[OuCy]

Anything by Wilfred Owens. He's written some fantastic stuff.

[Buenchico]

Wilfrid Owens?
Wrong war, surely!

[MarkRae]

Assuming you mean Wilfred Owen, then that is definitely the wrong war.

Try this: http://www.angelaspoe...ld-war-two/4538826918

[twix123]

Here's a few written specially regarding the evacuation:

http://tinyurl.com/2dsyqxt

[taffdavies1]

Hope this helps:- The crosses grow on anzio
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O,h gather round me comrades
and listen while I weep
of a war, a war, a war
where hell is six feet deep

along the shore the cannons roar
O,h how can a soldier sleep
The goings slow on Anzio
And hell is six feet deep

Praise be to god for this captured sod
Thats rich where blood does seep
With yours and mine, like butchered swine
And hell is six feet deep

That death does wait
Theres no debate
No triumph will we reap
The crosses grow on Anzio
Where hell is six feet deep

Audy Murphy; Actor of numerous films and highest medals awarded in the
second world war.