A.A. Gill Quotes

A Broadsheet Obituarist Once Pointed Out To Me That Veteran Soldiers Die By Rank. First To Go Are The Generals, Admirals And Air Marshals, Then The Brigadiers, Then A Bit Of A Gap And The Colonels And Wing Commanders And Passed-over Majors, Then A Steady Trickle Of Captains And Lieutenants. As They Get Older And Rarer, So The Soldiers Are Mythologised And Grow Ever More Heroic, Until Finally Drummer Boys And Under-age Privates Are Venerated And Laurelled With Honours Like Ancient Field Marshals. There Is Something Touching About That.

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