Our latest casualty over here in the United Kingdom was 19 year-old Jamie Hancock, a Kingsman serving in the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (Kings, Lancashire and Border) currently stationed in Basra, Iraq. (Her Majesty, the Duke of Lancaster, is of course the regiment's Colonel-in-Chief). I stop to mention this because I had never heard of this rank before (essentially the equivalent of a private serving in the infantry), which today is limited in usage -- a unique honour bestowed upon privates serving in the King's Division, all of the regiments domiciled in northern England.
I stop to mention this to pay tribute to Jamie Hancock, a soldier of the War on Terror. T'is the season to honour the sacrifice of such men.