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    HM THE QUEEN SHEDS A TEAR

    Join the club Your Majesty..............thats what Remembrance Day does to many of those that served too!
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    'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA

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    Liz did serve. She drove an ambulance.
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    During the Battle of Britainicon she often accompanied her father onto the defense airfields as he awarded medals. I've read one account of her chatting with Robert Stanford Tuck after he was decorated with the DFC. She was keen to know the identity of a plane overhead. Her father had misidentified it so she checked with Tuck to discovered what it really was. She displayed an admirable curiosity about mechanical things.

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    No doubt in her mind the memories along with everything else of what London endured in WWII under the V1 & V2 rockets the latter of which there was no defense as it was supersonic on its downward flight another fact I just learned was they the Germans launched 3,000 of the V2's against Englandicon killing 5,000 men/women/children.
    Nope she may be the Queen but in all things equal she is a human being with emotions the hardest part for HM is not openly displaying those feelings which in a way is kinda sad that they in public cannot be themselves. God Bless Her Majesty.

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    Adding to that she served as an ambulance driver during WWII, and literally millions of men and women have gone forward in her service - not all of them came back - over the decades of her reign.
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    Being an avid Royalist, as an ex serviceman, its the first time I have seen the Britishicon Press show HM with a tear in her eye, she was certainly hard faced when HRH Diana died!! It does show the public that she does have a heart and see's things that move her as well as the rest of us.
    'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gil Boyd View Post
    ... its the first time I have seen the Britishicon Press show HM with a tear in her eye, she was certainly hard faced when HRH Diana died!! ...
    I have to wonder how much of that was selective reporting. After all, the British press and tabloids world-wide were making a meal of sensationalising reports of any sort of possible conflict between HM and HRH.

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    As she is in a more relaxed situation looking down from above so to speak, I suppose she can see individuals and the suffering they have endured "in her name", albeit I fought for my mates to stay alive, I am sure we all did, when the preverbial was hitting the fan!!
    'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA

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    Been there too, Mate. I can't imagine what it was like for her (particularly in the early days) to open the red box each morning to read military despatches and reports from places like Korea, Malaya Kenya, Cyprus, Aden, Egypt, Ireland, the Falklands, Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the Commonwealth reports with their tallies of wounded and dead. I can imagine it weighed heavily.

    My point at #7 was that the media may have selectively edited and reported about HM and HRH for their own financial gain.

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    A very young Queen Elizabeth picture hangs proudly on the wall of our rifle club rooms as we are sworn to allegiance to her through the rifle club/s here that share the range by being part of the Commonwealth.

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