Good-bye Harry and all your comrades... And yet, as far as his wife and sons were concerned, he was a plumber, and a father and husband; it seems as though they never knew of that mad four months in France when he was nineteen. What he valued was not glory in combat but a family and a job that he took pride in, and mercifully that was what he was granted. Perhaps that is what we should all value. The Greeks had a legend that when one of their heroes, I think it was Ulysses, entered heaven, the gods asked him what he wanted when he was reborn, and he replied "a quiet life". I suspect Harry and his comrades valued this more than some of us. At least he lived long enough to tell us the unvarnished truth.
Harry will be laid to rest tomorrow ....... Does anybody live close by ? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8186578.stm
I really wish I did, I'd have gone for one of the tickets. Hopefully there'll be decent coverage on the news.
I watched the BBC World news coverage last night - all 60 secs of it - hope there was better coverage in the UK
I missed the news altogether. Not the best of videos, but it shows some http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8186578.stm
