His box held war medals, pay book, discharge papers, photos of soldiers from his years in the desert: young men riding donkeys, horses, camels, young men larking in the sun. A battered tin box at the bottom of his wardrobe with a gift of sepia photos swimming in and out of focus, soldiers riding in “The Gaza Cup” one New Year’s Day. I cannot find my father in the serum of spectators, among men tearing down a makeshift track, but he’d be there somewhere, our champion rider and first class larrikin. I tried to close the box, but something caught…
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