‘What did you do in the war, grandad?’
‘I stayed in.’
If this really is a war, as we are constantly being told, it is one which breaks with the conventional meaning of that word in some significant respects. It is the first war, for example, where women will see more action than men, female staff greatly outnumbering male staff in most hospitals and care facilities.
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