The honour of Britain and its armed forces passed away peacefully today from injuries sustained in Iraq.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6446649.stm

It will be dearly missed.

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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Marx (G.)

It's not the Army I knew.

...was always a myth. A perpetuated construct that inspired much foolish sacrifice/slaughter. Even Kipling learned this, though too late (for his son).

Very many astonishingly honourable people served, however, in the British Forces, over hundreds of years.

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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."