think we discussed this in an earlier thread a couple of years back (over to you MargaretR/Garinda
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About how/if/when the Govt. would go 'overboard' in 'celebrating' this passing , seem to remember reading that both France and Australia made a big deal (State funerals) for their last surviving veterans from WW1 , glad to see/read that there are no such things planed in the UK since in my mind the present Govt. would only use it for political spin , giving Tony Blair the chance to weep crocodile tears about the need for "European Unity" ...
Just let the old guy go, in the words of General MacArthur ..... " And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good Bye "