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My best Duke of Edinburgh salute for my oncologist

10 April 2021

9:00 AM

10 April 2021

9:00 AM

In the waiting room I thought about the Duke of Edinburgh. In particular, I pictured him saluting the cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday. In 1915 Colonel Maud’huy told his assembled French soldiery: ‘Many men salute correctly, very rare are those who salute beautifully… One could say that the salute is the hallmark of education.’

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