When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say, For Your Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today.

The above is a famous inscription at the War Cemetery in Kohima. The Kohima Epitaph is attributed to John Maxwell Edmonds (1875–1958), and is thought to have been inspired by the epitaph of Simonides written by Simonides to honour the Spartans who fell at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC.