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When you go home, tell them of us, and say
‘For your to-morrows these gave their to-day.’

— John Maxwell Edmonds

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See also: Yesterday's Enemy (1959)

Variants

"For your to-morrow we gave our to-day"

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Went the day well? We died and never knew;
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