'We were young. We have died. Remember us.
We have given our lives, but until it is finished no one
can know what our lives gave.
Our deaths are not ours; they are yours; they will
mean what you make them.
Whether our lives and our deaths were for peace and a
new hope or for nothing, we cannot say; it is you who
must say this.
We leave you our deaths. Give them there meaning.
We were young. We have died. Remember us.'

-Archibald Macleish, The Young Dead Soldiers