[BITList] Off Topic - How Other Countries Do It.

[HUGH]

John,

That certainly seems to be how Canada does it, and it's nobody else's 
business, as no doubt they'd tell anyone who commented.  The UK doesn't do 
the "hero" culture thing - in the current climate, dead military personnel 
are mourned by family and friends and the loss is regretted as a needless 
waste of a life by others.

I note the procession ended at the Coroner's place in Toronto where, no 
doubt, formal inquests would take place.  Only now has such showed signs of 
ceasing to be a vexed question in the UK.  Only now are adjustments being 
proposed/arranged to Scottish law to allow inquests into the deaths of Scots 
military to be held north of the border. Until now, there being no provision 
in Scottish law for whatever the iassue was, families of Scots killed while 
serving had to travel the length of the UK to be present at inquests in 
England.  Apparently this legal nicety overrode any other consideration, so 
not much chance for heroic processions.

Hugh.