Awesome article on the Telegraph which features the memories of Ken Rees, one of the last survivors of the "Great Escape". If you don't know what that was, then you need to read this at once.

As the writer concludes, "In an age obsessed with C-list television celebrities battling it out on phoney 'reality' survival shows, Rees and his dwindling band of Great Escapers stand out as the real thing." That's what's so great about the British papers. They still focus on people who did great things, usually in the obituaries. Why can't American papers write such good obituaries? There must be someone dying every day in the Washington area who did truly great things, and whose memory should be celebrated and preserved.