Unknown Soldier

[dukealien]

Unknown Soldier

you never spoke
of your loss

your younger brother
only a few miles away

dying on the losing side
of a field in France

and you,
the lucky one?

buried with honors
in Arlington

me, left to pass on a story
I know so little of

May 13, 1940:  22 year old German soldier, Private Fridolin Becker, killed in action, Aringe-aux-Bois, France

A very thought-provoking story.  Brothers in arms, or brothers in the biggest family of all, the dead.  Fridalin would have been on the winning side at the time he fell (fourth day of the Battle of France) - irrelevant to brothers of both kinds.