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Friday, November 12, 2004

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The King, Queen, Prime Minister and leading members of Parliament attended yesterday's Remembrance Day remembrances at the Cenotaph in London.

In a reverent silence broken only by the noise of explosions as police suppressed fuel riots in the City, the King and Prime Minister laid wreaths of poppies by the monument to Britain's military casualties.

A parade of the few remaining veterans of the Second World War followed, while in Westminster Abbey both Provisional Archbishops of Canterbury conducted solemn ceremonies in which they prayed for an end to some of the world's unpleasantness (Dr Lionel Marmaduke Lilliwhyte, liberal wing) and for the conquest and damnation of all infidels (Reverend Jebediah Icke, evangelical wing).

In accordance with the Revised Establishment Act, both Archbishops spoke simultaneously for ten minutes at equivalent volume, with the monarch and Prime Minister sitting in the aisle between them to symbolise ecclesiastical reconciliation and equality.

At the end of the day, an antique Lancaster bomber, owned by the Smithsonian National Full Spectrum Dominance Museum in Washington DC, dropped poppy petals into the Thames in remembrance of the British and American servicemen and civilian contractors killed in action since 1918 and the victory over the Afghan drug lords in 2002.

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