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HOMECOMING
HOMECOMING
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Back from the combatzones
Of the rest of Europe
And patriotic ticker-tape parades,
England's sons
Had no homes
To come back to
In the mid-1940s.
Military camps
Luxury flats
City hotels
Were abandoned.
Fears of air raids
By Nazi planes
Dropping bombs
Power outages
Cities blown to the bare bricks
Sent every...
Wednesday 19th February 2025 11:32 pm
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