I guarantee you it means something to the residents of those six houses.
It’s easy to lose track of individual humanity at the scale of a war, but this victory is the one these people will always most remember when they think of the tide turning. Their lives are worth something.
Also, while it’s easy to reduce humanity down to numbers at the scale of a war, to the people finally getting to rejoin their country today – this is the victory that matters. The one they will remember most clearly after the war is over. To us on the outside it might seem small, but to those people it’s their entire world.