The 6ft, moustached, dark-haired Churcher, like Gibson a veteran of attacks with Lancaster bombers across Western Europe, dispelled the shadows of that conflict with glittering years at peace, serving first as a pilot of the elite King's Flight, and then twice, in newly married bliss, as Britain's Air Attaché in Rome.
He was taken prisoner and eventually was convicted of crimes against peace, serving a life sentence.
He spent the remainder of the peace serving at Halifax and Jamaica, returning to England in June 1793 after the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars.
At least as thin as Obama's argument that he lived for a while in Indonesia, and that somehow qualifies him to handle the complexities of the Middle East peace process, serve as commander in chief, and execute the other national security responsibilities of the Oval Office.
He was the government's chief negotiator in the Northern Ireland peace process, and now serves as the UK's official envoy to Libya.
He was a cofounder (1997) of the International Alliance for Arab-Israeli Peace and served as president of the Israel Council on Foreign Relations.
Irish premier Bertie Ahern described Mr Hume as a "true Irish hero", a philosopher, architect and symbol of peace who "served his people to the limits".
Pérez de Cuéllar repeatedly advocated the use of the UN Security Council for keeping the peace and serving as a forum for negotiations.
Inside, a 1966 Volkwagen van, plastered with peace stickers, served as a concession stand, selling tie-dyed shirts, antiwar bumper stickers and "Question Authority" buttons.
Putting them first, however, would mean that "we're not going to move anywhere," according to Aaron Miller, president of Seeds of Peace, who served as a Middle East negotiator under six secretaries of state.
