In the poem "Loving in the War Years," are the "war years" supposed to be a reference to the narrator/Moraga's life in general?

In "Loving in the War Years," Cherrie Moraga uses “war years” as a conceit, or extended metaphor, through the entire poem. The ongoing fight in which the speaker and other “queer and female” people involved is a kind of “resistance” to oppression, which they must fight in part by taking a stand against “our enemy, fear”; she terms their attitudes a “war time morality.” In the first four lines, the speaker establishes a direct analogy between their fight and World War Two: she mentions Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, who play the characters Rick and Ilsa in the film Casablanca, much of which takes places in the nightclub, or “piano bar,” of which Rick is the proprietor. During the Second World War, one primary aspect of the “resistance” was the French actions against the Nazis, who had taken over France. This activity was often conducted in secret because of its great danger. Similarly, living as a lesbian involves taking risks by opposing the dominant system but also living much of one’s life in secret.
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"The war years" in this poem are a reference to the years of World War Two, from 1939 to 1945. The speaker in Moraga's poem compares the experience of loving the poem's subject to "living in the war years," "in "a broken world." The poem makes allusions to the film Casablanca, in which "Bogart & Bergman" are "singin a long smoky / mood into the piano bar." The speaker equates herself and her lover to Bogart and Bergman, but it is "not clear who's who." The context suggests that she feels the two are coming together in a time of crisis: "Loving you had this kind of desperation to it, like do or die."
Loving like this, "in the war years," the poet says, "calls for this kind of risking," a sense that, because the atmosphere is not as it might be in ordinary days, "I've got to take you as you come." At the end of the poem, the speaker gives some indication as to why this particular relationship feels like this, like "risking," in that "being queer / and female is as bad / as we can get."
"The war years," then, offer a lens through which the speaker views her own relationship, seeing echoes of the exceptional circumstances driving the relationship in Casablanca in her own interaction with the poem's subject. In times of war, the poem suggests, people come together without asking as many questions as they might otherwise do. People may take more risks, because they can never know how "battle bruised" their partner has been, and their time may be short. Moraga uses this analogy to express how her speaker has felt in her own relationship.