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Barbed Wire Quotes
Quotes where barbed wire marks both history and metaphor.
Some of these quotes are firsthand historical memory - one speaker recalls guard towers and machine guns becoming, over time, an ordinary part of a childhood spent behind barbed wire in an internment camp. Related history appears under Australia quotes, where another account describes fenced huts in a country town.
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A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia.
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Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.
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