Sometimes

Sometimes
They were young men barely adults.
Not kids.
They volunteered to fly aircraft.
Sometimes they flew into a mountain while training.
Sometimes they got lost in cloud and simply vanished.
Sometimes they collided over their home airfield.
Sometimes they got disorientated and dove to the earth.
Sometimes they got thru training and all those perils in one piece.
Then they try and blow one another from the sky.
Sometimes they succeed.