As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.
Source: War and Remembrance: A Bit of the Bitterness Is Buried Along with an Unknown Soldier Time, 11 Jun 84
-- Lance Morrow, (Jan 0 0-0), US columnist; He wrote for Time about The Dangers of Lazy Journalism.