[Cincinatus]

She will be the first British Prime Minister since Sir Winston Churchill in 1965 to be afforded such an honour.

Churchill and Thatcher are the only ones to deserve such an honor.

[ClearCase_guy]

My first memory of watching television was Churchill's funeral. I was 5 and I didn't really know what I was watching, but I remembered the visuals. Years later I realized what I had seen.

Churchill and Thatcher were the best that Britain produced in the 20th century.

[naturalman1975]

I've been in England recently, and while I was there, I visited Churchill's old school (as a teacher, I find such places interesting). Harrow is one of Britain's oldest and best known schools (established 1572 but on the site of a school that dates from the 13th century).

While I was talking to some of the staff there, one of them mentioned one of the last times Churchill visited the school. He joined with the boys in singing the school song called Forty Years On.

And then the boys sang to him, two new verses.

Sixty years on — though in time growing older,
Younger at heart you return to the Hill
You, who in days of defeat ever bolder
Led us to Victory, serve Britain still
Still there are bases to guard or beleaguer
Still must the battle for Freedom be won
Long may you fight, Sir, who fearless and eager
Look back to-day more than sixty years on

Blazoned in honour! For each generation
You kindled courage to stand and to stay
You led our fathers to fight for the nation
Called "Follow up" and yourself showed the way
We who were born in the calm after thunder
Cherish our freedom to think and to do
If in our turn we forgetfully wonder
Yet we'll remember we owe it to you.

Apparently it reduced the great man to tears.

I just found that an incredibly touching tribute when I heard about it.