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"Back" They ask me where I've been, And what I've done and seen. But what can I reply Who knows, it wasn't I, But someone just like me, Who went across the sea And with my head and hands Killed men in foreign lands... Though I must bear the blame, Because he bore my name. Use the preceding Poem to answer question _____ most likely would ask him “where he’s been and what he’s done"?

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Wilfred Wilson Gibson (1878-1962), was borned in England, he was a soldier in the war and served in the infantry on the western front, what he`s done was to kill people in the war, altough he ironicaly says, "It wasn't I", wich indicates he doesn't recongise his action in the war.

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According to Wilfrid Wilson Gibson´s poem "back" , show us the sad story of a men who has been in a far away land, fighting a war that was not his war, leaving every piece of his soul in any man he killed, until can not recognize himself, so the question would not be "where he´s been and what he´s done" it would be more like asking Will you finally be able to find your soul?.

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