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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

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