'Back'

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878-1962) was a British poet associated mainly with World War I. But I suspect his words still ring true for today's combat soldier:

They ask me where I've been,
And what I've done and seen.
But what can I reply
Who know it wasn't I,
But someone just like me,
Who went across the sea
And with my head and hands
Killed men in foreign lands...
Though I must bear the blame,
Because he bore my name.