Fred Sharon - Homecoming

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49 sec
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Department of Veterans' Affairs

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We never had any money. We had Dutch currency. Shorts, khaki shirt, boots and gaiters. My sister met me at the train and then went home and met mum and all that and then my uncle, he was like a brother, he was in the army and been to Balik. "Come down and meet the others".

So the pub, this is the Saturday night, doing the ...dance, that's like that, he grabbed me and took me up the middle of the floor, 'cause I was well known there. Well, they came from everywhere. It was, it was just unbelievable. That was my homecoming.

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