These laid the world away; poured out the red
Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be
Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene,
That men call age; and those who would have been,
Their sons, they gave, their immortality.

Blow, bugles, blow! — Rupert Brooke

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The US commander in Afghanistan announced on Wednesday that US aircraft had killed the responsible insurgents.