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           Just A Lad 
          by 
          Win Rainer 
          (Wife of a Fepow) 
            
          No one can tell how a captured young lad in war feel 
          At the time such dreadful things his life seal 
          What of his courage and how to survive 
          A way that would allow him to stay alive 
          The brutality and starvation and a 12-hour day 
          This was his agony and no hope lay 
          This was his life not knowing how long 
          But his ability to survive was strong 
          This man who over many years have survived and grown old 
          Look into his eyes his agony still can be told. 
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