World War 2 Poetry- Help!

RandomIrl

This might be a better place to post it, perhaps not?
Hi all, just looking for a bit of help if possible, looking for a poem related to ww2 that would be suitable for 6th class children.
any ideas welcome.

byhookorbycrook

Not a second world war poem, but one of my favourite ,by the Irish poet Tom Kettle

[To My Daughter Betty, The Gift of God
by Thomas Michael Kettle
dated ‘In the field, before Guillemont, Somme, Sept. 4, 1916’.

In wiser days, my darling rosebud, blown
To beauty proud as was your mother's prime,
In that desired, delayed, incredible time,
You'll ask why I abandoned you, my own,
And the dear heart that was your baby throne,
To dice with death. And oh! they'll give you rhyme
And reason: some will call the thing sublime,
And some decry it in a knowing tone.
So here, while the mad guns curse overhead,
And tired men sigh with mud for couch and floor,
Know that we fools, now with the foolish dead,
Died not for flag, nor King, nor Emperor,—
But for a dream, born in a herdsman's shed,
And for the secret Scripture of the poor.

And again ,first world war but beautiful and gets me every time!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT0ysO58KXE

And finally,a whole page on WW2 poetry
http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/2nd_WW.html