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Monument honours millions who did not fight in WWII - but whose roles were vital to war effort
In the pouring rain, Nicola Pickett wiped a tear from her eye as she stared up at a 12-foot (3.7m) monument that finally gave recognition to her father, Job. "This means the world," she told me.
An imposing steel sculpture of a Black Country chain maker, stands at the edge of a churchyard in Cradley Heath. It commemorates millions of people who weren't allowed to fight in the Second World War because their jobs at home were too important.
Nicola's dad had been a miner in the war. She said, "he was a bit embarrassed because all of his brothers went to war and for years he wondered if he was appreciated for what he did".
I caught up with West Midlands-based sculptor Luke Perry before the monument was unveiled on Remembrance Sunday, finding him hammering another name into the artwork's base. People keep coming up to him to say they also had a relative known as a "reserved occupationist.
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