“When you go home, Tell them of us and say, For your tomorrow(s), We gave our today” —John Maxwell Edmonds #LestWeForget

“When you go home
Tell them of us and say
For your tomorrow(s)
We gave our today”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maxwell_Edmonds

To Edmonds' chagrin this printing changed what he considered the much more correct and effective 'tomorrows' of his original manuscript to the singular 'tomorrow', the version that became general usage. Modern renditions have moved even further from Edmonds' original, with the second line often given as 'For your tomorrow we gave our today', a reflection of the words now usually being spoken as an invocation rather than read as a memorial inscription as Edmonds originally intended.

Equally vexing to Edmonds was the popular belief that he had merely translated Greek originals - while he acknowledged that he had been influenced by the style and brevity of classical Greek epitaphs, his were original compositions. www.gchq.gov.uk/information/when-you-go-home

CC BY-S picture of Westbury on Trym by Rob Brewer on Wikimedia Commons w.wiki/F$Z3

Taken in: UK / England / Westbury on Trym (show map)

Taken on: November 10, 2025

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