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The Poppy: not political, not religious, but Remembrance

Posted November 10, 2011

On Monday I spent a humbling hour at the newly opened Field of Remembrance on Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh.  It's the first such tribute to fallen soldiers in Edinburgh and compliments the established Garden of Remembrance.

Strolling along the rows of crosses with individual names, thanks and …

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Tagged as poppy, poppy scotland, afghanistan, iraq, fifa, and field of remembrance

Gaddafi is dead but Libya is very much alive

Posted October 20, 2011

When I first heard the news earlier today that Gaddafi had been captured in Sirte I read it and took it with a slight pinch of salt.  I decided to let the story develop before getting too excited about it.  It was only a few short weeks ago that the NTC told us they'd captured Moussa Ibrahim and he …

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Tagged as libya, gaddafi, moussa ibrahim, nato, iraq, afghanistan, future, ntc, and national transitional council
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