Is the right answer.
As an Irishman, may I respectfully point out that the Crown Force - in all of its manifestations - has consistently behaved abominably in my country (and also many others). To hold them up as champions of freedom is an insult to the millions around the globe that that combined institution has slaughtered for the advancement and enabling of colonialism (and capitalism).
I say this as someone - from a military family of many generations - who has had family members serve and die fighting both for and against the wretched fucking thing, by the way.
My great-grandmother, for example, was summarily executed by the Black & Tans because her son (my grandfather) was at large during our War of Independence. My other grandfather drank himself to death because he couldn't readjust to life after the trenches of WWI... there are other stories, too. It's a long and horrifying list that's replicated (in some form or another) in just about every family on these islands - but the bottom line is always the same. One working man killing another so that their bosses can enjoy a better class of life.
Nothing personal, Peace frog, (sorry if it feels like I'm having a pop at you) but it just boils my piss when this lionisation of military institutions gets cranked up every year and none dare speak against it.
