The bombs are dropping still
so reminiscent of the dirty days
of powdered dust, so cocoa brown,
the city was surrounded by the coal
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Let's hope not H. The British make a lot of noise about the Blitz spirit. Between September 1940 and May 1941 there were about 43,000 killed during the Blitz (too many of course) . But, at Dresden,25-35,000 were killed in just two days of bombing. It puts things in perspective. Thanks for posting this thought provoking piece.
Dresden, Cologne, Berlin.. Hiroshima Nagasaki London... all mass murder arranged by Hitler, Churchill and Truman