She reflects on a life given shape by marriage, motherhood, and world war, milestones that she and the Queen have in common.
While the memorial does tell the stories of first world war milestones and battles that Gallipoli has culturally eclipsed (Pozieres, Fromelles, Ypres, Passchendaele, Hamel, Villers Bretonneux, Beersheba and Damascus), Nelson is mindful of recounting demobilisation and the generational social and emotional legacies of the great war.
The trip to North Korea coincided with the 60th anniversary of the end of the Korean War, a milestone that the North Korean government has tried to use for propaganda purposes.
It also comes in the midst of our nation's remembrance of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War – a milestone during which talk of race has been largely and strikingly absent.
Eurogamer was enthusiastic in pronouncing Medieval: Total War "a milestone in gaming", while GameZone was less impressed, calling the gameplay "solid, enjoyable battle gaming", while criticising the audio and graphics as "merely average".
As it happens, one of the Russian roulette scenes from that film makes an appearance in "Gunga Din"; Mr. Sitko puts the six-member cast through a virtual ooh-rah karaoke of war-movie milestones, re-enacting everything from Vincent D'Onofrio's "Full Metal Jacket" meltdown to the stirring battle cries of "Patton" to the wheelchair-on-wheelchair skirmish in "Born on the Fourth of July".
It may be decades before we have a full accounting of this disastrous war, but this milestone calls for an interim reckoning.
After the game Mafia Wars reached a milestone two years ago, Zynga sent the team to Las Vegas to celebrate, buying some 80 plane tickets and providing $500 in cash for each person and luxury hotel accommodations, according to one former senior employee.
Bundles for Britain, which continued through the war, was but one milestone in the life of Lady Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton.
LONDON — Britain marked its 300th military death in the Afghanistan war on Monday, a milestone that Prime Minister David Cameron described as "desperately bad news" and a reminder that Britain was "paying a high price for keeping our country safe".
