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|title=Day

|author=A L Kennedy

|date=April 2007

|isbn=978-0224077866

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Alfred F Day was a gunner in a Lancaster bomber during World War II. He was part of a crew and the crew was everything. Set apart from everyday life and dependent on one another for survival, the crew developed camaraderie, its own slang, its own songs and rituals. Alfie's identity has come to be intrinsic to the crew's identity. This particular barrack room is very hard to let go, even when death intervenes. So, four years after the war is over and four years after Alfie's spell as a prisoner of war has come to an end, he still hasn't adjusted to peace, or to individuality. Perhaps it wouldn't have been so bad if his home background had been a happier one, if he hadn't run to war, rather than from it.