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July 02, 2009
Elizabeth Cross
Queen Elizabeth II will honour the loss of armed forces families whose loved ones have been killed in operations or by terrorist action since World War II. The Queen has been badly served by her ministers since the War and consequently the time of her reign may be remembered as a disaster (if our new masters choose to remember it at all). But this is a good idea.
In this light, the Elizabeth Cross is not only a worthy gesture; it is a kind of elegy for honour, duty and sacrifice, concepts foreign to what England has been made by small men, by misguided idealists and by the writ of orc scrolls in those parts of the land where Her Majesty's reign has been ceded to a hyper-modern Dark Age.
It follows a precedent set after the first and second world wars. Families of those killed in World War I were given a scroll and a memorial plaque, while a scroll was given to families of those who died in World War II and the Korean War.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at July 2, 2009 07:48 AM
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