text: two points--one u asked for--one u didnt\n\n1. keep the homefires burning means the people back at home (not on the warfront) have to keep going, keep a lamp in the window, keep their country okay for when the soldier comes home\n\n2. Johnny Got His Gun is a book (by Dalton Trumbo) and then a movie of the same name. It's about a badly wounded soldier who  is in a coma but is trying to discover how badly wounded he is. Both the book and movie are great, and I think Metallica uses part of the movie in their video(I havent seen it in a long time)