June 23 'More' UK troops home this year

Year after year there are more of them, those that fought and fell,  in the crevices of our skin they sink and twist and spiral and fall weaving in and out of our memory, by Spitfires and Meschermitts, forgotten but still fighting, beyond death into all eternity.
What will happen when the ghosts outnumber the living?

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