During an Armistice Day ceremony in London, servicemen salute as they stand among the ceramic poppies of the art installation Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red.
Julie Bishop – rose among thorns – we salute you.
A 17-second film showing the Queen performing a Nazi salute in 1933 was not among the royal memorabilia sold at auction by Mohamed Al Fayed, a spokesman for the former Harrods owner has said.
Now I do, and as well as being massively knowledgeable about this former One Show presenter who suffered a career wobble thanks to "sex texts", I feel obliged to salute one quality almost unique among celebrity memoirists.
This message, the argument went, was right there in the Scout Oath and Law, the guiding principles that generations of boys have had to know by heart and regularly recite, raising their arms in that familiar three-fingered salute and promising to be (among many other things) "clean" and "morally straight".
In honor of this Memorial Day, I salute Shane, David, Jon, Edward, and even Howard, among countless others, lost far too young.
Among those firing the salute, which started at midday, were 14 volunteers born in 1952 - the year the Queen acceded to the throne.
Reciprocally, however, Watkins will understand if Grainger, having at last requited a 12-year craving, is widely saluted as first among equals.
But anti-semetic rhetoric and Nazi salutes are common among its members, and leaders have recommended "Mein Kampf" to new recruits.
*Your Week: Kelly Anne salutes those families among the 31 Americans killed in a helicopter attack for not wanting their family member's names released for their "valor, humility and service".
