By John Pilger
December 15, 2020 "
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Clearing House" - Britain’s
Armed Services Memorial is a silent, haunting
place. Set in the rural beauty of Staffordshire,
in an arboretum of some 30,000 trees and
sweeping lawns, its Homeric figures celebrate
determination and sacrifice.
The names of more than
16,000 British servicemen and women are listed.
The literature says they “died in operational
theatre or were targeted by terrorists”.
On the day I was there, a
stonemason was adding new names to those who
have died in some 50 operations across the world
during what is known as “peacetime”. Malaya,
Ireland, Kenya, Hong Kong, Libya, Iraq,