Why does this wartime song make me cry?

Cali Bird
3 min readJun 19, 2020
Image courtesy of BBC

It was a Sunday 5th April, two weeks into lockdown. A daunting time. We were still rabbit-in-the-headlights about what was happening to us and what the future may hold. Boris Johnson, our prime minister, had just been hospitalised with corona-virus and the peak of the disease had yet to arrive.

In the midst of this, the Queen gave a rallying call to the nation. She ended her speech with these…

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Cali Bird

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