This piece (video, 8:34) is on the Royal Family’s YouTube channel.
The Invictus Games are currently being held in Sydney, Australia. The start of the Wikipedia entry:
The Invictus Games is an international adaptive multi-sport event, created by Prince Harry, in which wounded, injured or sick armed services personnel and their associated veterans take part in sports including wheelchair basketball, sitting volleyball, and indoor rowing. Named after Invictus, Latin for “unconquered” or “undefeated”, the event was inspired by the Warrior Games, a similar event held in the United States. The first Invictus Games took place in September 2014 at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, United Kingdom.
Surely nobody other than Hilary Clinton would deny that the overwhelming majority of “wounded, injured or sick armed services personnel” – and let’s not forget the countless dead – have been men, since time immemorial. So, in this era of Meghan “this is what a feminist looks like” Markle, how many men are there visible in the rows in the background behind Prince Harry, when he gives his speech? None. Not one. When men must surely represent 99%+ of those killed and injured in the conflicts in which Invictus Games competitors risked life and limb.
I’m so appalled at this crass insensitivity towards male suffering, that I’m lost for words. My beloved late father Malcolm, a Morse Code operator who jumped onto a Normandy beach along with Field Marshal Montgomery’s company on his 21st birthday, on 11 June 1944, five days after D-Day, must be rolling in his grave.
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