They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.
LOVE that poem. Love it. It was SO apt for the end of Human Nature. I never knew it was a real poem about WW1 until recently. It makes it only MORE apt, because it has meaning for Tim and the Doctor and Martha, because of the 'age will not weary them' line. He's aged decades and is at the end of his life, and the Doctor and Martha are completely unchanged from how they were in his childhood.
Yup-even though that poem gets read at pretty much every Remembrance service, that scene still made me cry; partly because of what you said about it being so literally true for the Doctor, coming back looking exactly as he did seventy-odd years earlier.
I've heard it read at Remembrance Day services all my life, so for me it's one of the first things I think about when I think of WWI. But, yeah, it's one of the reasons why the whole episode worked so organically for me, that tying-in of Tim's story to the whole thing.
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