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I'm sorry that Mrs Patmore should be distressed, m'lord.
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But you're not sorry Archie's name's to be left off the memorial.
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He volunteered. He didn't wait to be called up.
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He went to the Front to fight,
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and as for his so-called cowardice...
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that were like a wound in battle, a wound to his brain,
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so he didn't know what he was doing.
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He were a good and decent lad.
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Of course he was.
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But doesn't that make him a casualty of war, m'lord?
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Same as our William or any of them.
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He could have stayed here,