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My book shelf
My book-shelf
is
filled with
the campaign
medals,
self-awarded,
from battles
with
an inadequate
education.
Words and image Tommy Carroll
Friday 22nd February 2019 10:14 pm
The Bayonet In The Shed
The Bayonet In The Shed
He put it there in forty nine,
in a woodworm riddled drawer,
wrapped it in a greasy rag.
A remnant from the war.
On top of it he laid his medals,
nothing more was said
until the day my father
took the bayonet from the shed.
We had pestered many times
and he had said ‘perhaps’
when we asked him if he’d killed
any Krauts or any Ja...
Monday 16th May 2016 12:24 pm
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