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Coming Home

Many felt the civil was would not last more than a few months. The faded "Welcome Home" sign tells a different story. It hung on the tree for four years!

Haunted by memories of the dreadful war that will be with him a long time, this returning soldier was on a journey homeward with these thoughts:

"I can still hear the cannons roar. The whistling cannon balls streaking through the smoky air. Soldiers wounded in fierce combat, crawling along the battlefields, crying in agony, some begging to die. The long weary marches through cold rain and snow to places we did not want to go.

"I can still feel the mud in my boots, though my feet are dry. Now the fighting's done no need to further roam, it's time to live life as life should be lived. I'm coming home!" Robert Cepale