They held hands like life lines these two, brother and sister, evacuees
Clamped like bulldog’s jaws, looking after each other like guardian angels.
Had their train been hit by a bombing raid’
If nothing else found but those two hands’
They would still be gripping each other tightly.
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At the going down of the sun, and in the morning we will remember
them. - Laurence
Binyon
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