article_snippet: Entitled ‘A Service of Commemoration, Reflection and Remembrance’
article_snippet: (‘thanksgiving’ might have been triumphal), this was a state occasion of the highest order.
article_snippet: Even so, great delicacy was required.
article_snippet: Because this was a magnificent service, a finely judged blend of tradition, innovation, stirring but non-martial music and audience participation.
article_snippet: We don’t need to go to a service like that to remember We
article_snippet: For many, the last experience of something like this was the raw agony of the parade at Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire.