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From: "cdavis" <cdavis@webworldinc.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 4:50 PM
Subject: [MV] God Save The Queen
> I was touched by the playing of the Star Spangled Banner at the changing
of
> the Guard at Buckingham Palace yesterday.
>
There was too a very moving service at St Paul's Cathedral attended by HM
Queen and the Royal Family.
Also, eerie and moving was the national and Europe-wide three minute silence
at 11:00, everything stopped, absolutely everything, TV, radio, public
transport, shops, the lot.
What you all may not know is that tomorrow, Battle of Britain Day (largely
forgotten), is also the last night of the Proms* - "a rumbustious
celebration of quintessential Britishness", for the first time in history
the long established and fixed programme has been altered to encompass works
of a more appropriate nature in the light of recent events and indeed that
presently the Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra is an American.
(*Promenade Concerts - Sir Henry Wood)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2001/thelastnight.shtml
and in depth:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/prommersguide/history.shtml#beginning and
onwards.
Richard
Southampton - England
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