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The Funeral Of Margaret Thatcher: Your Eulogy
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What would you say, given the chance to speak at the Funeral?
Here's a round up of previous discussions:
Margaret Thatcher Dies Of A Stroke | A State Funeral? | Should Anti-Thatcher Demonstrations Be Banned? | Etiquette Upon The Death Of Margaret Thatcher | Maggie's Greatest Achievement (And Failure) | A Song For Thatcher | Disrespectful Cartoons | A Fitting Epitaph | BBC Coverage | What Maggie Did For Us
What would you say, given the chance to speak at the Funeral?
Here's a round up of previous discussions:
Margaret Thatcher Dies Of A Stroke | A State Funeral? | Should Anti-Thatcher Demonstrations Be Banned? | Etiquette Upon The Death Of Margaret Thatcher | Maggie's Greatest Achievement (And Failure) | A Song For Thatcher | Disrespectful Cartoons | A Fitting Epitaph | BBC Coverage | What Maggie Did For Us
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Rather than say anything about her time as PM I prefer to say something about her as a local MP... Every christmas she hosted a party for local old people and even my almost communist mother in law said she was lovely... and would not be bothered by other issues during the time she spent there. I also know people who worked at the houses of parliament who found her...
10:42 Wed 17th Apr 2013
A very unique and remarkable woman who served her country with distinction. Never flinched from a fight and had the courage of her convictions, unlike so many of her peers and successors.
Grudgingly respected across the main political parties, her tenure defined by her actions during the Falklands Conflict.
One who admired and respected our Armed Forces, she leaves a legacy that will long be debated. Many a politician would like to be able to say they subsequently caused so many to engage in politics.
She was a Great Briton who restored pride in these oft derided Isles.
May she rest in peace.
Grudgingly respected across the main political parties, her tenure defined by her actions during the Falklands Conflict.
One who admired and respected our Armed Forces, she leaves a legacy that will long be debated. Many a politician would like to be able to say they subsequently caused so many to engage in politics.
She was a Great Briton who restored pride in these oft derided Isles.
May she rest in peace.
Kept thinking of Christopher Wren's monument. It's in a dark spot under the cathedral, in the undercroft. It takes some finding, unlike the enormous monuments upstairs to the sons of rich families. After a recital of Wren's life , the Latin words read as "If you seek his monument, look around you !" Those words would also apply to Margaret Thatcher. What she did, and the consequences, are still all around us. They are her monument.
What I was trying to say is that if 'given the chance to speak at the funeral' there would be many things I could say. But if I did then it would say more about myself. That it would mean that I did not respect the occasion and her family. A funeral is a family occasion and I would hope that I would behave in a dignified way.
I mentioned earlier on in the thread, that the very fact that we have been invited to contribute a Eulogy for Maggie means that it ought to contain positive rather than negatives thoughts.
I don't believe for a minute that people aren't entitled to harbour negative thoughts about her, but this particular thread [given the Ed's comments] ought to have been for remarks out-lining the good that people feel/believe about her.
I don't believe for a minute that people aren't entitled to harbour negative thoughts about her, but this particular thread [given the Ed's comments] ought to have been for remarks out-lining the good that people feel/believe about her.
MadMen,
Thank you for your comment. I did not take it as a personal attack but I am well aware that I sometimes think what I have said is obvious. But when the person I have spoken to responds either at the time or subsequent action or when they fill the form I have asked them to complete, it is obvious that my communication was inadequate.
Thank you for your comment. I did not take it as a personal attack but I am well aware that I sometimes think what I have said is obvious. But when the person I have spoken to responds either at the time or subsequent action or when they fill the form I have asked them to complete, it is obvious that my communication was inadequate.
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