First published in Column Eight on the 7thApril, 1993

I see some protester has scrawled obscenities on the Cenotaph.Downwards at an angle above the inscription, The Glorious Dead, is aword both objectionable and objecting.

I may be wrong in thinking that the protester disagrees withthe message engraved on this monument. Maybe he or she had nothing else to do. Theobvious intent, however, was to cry out that the implications of the phrase, TheGlorious Dead, are hard to justify. Our view of...