“Militant” British Stamp Act Returns
Culture, Art September 24th. 2007, 5:37am
Starting this year Britain will be issuing a new series of stamps which details the history of the solders uniform. The first set will consist of six stamps covering 350 years of the Royal Army. The RAF will follow in 2008 and the series will be completed in 2009 with the inclusion of the Royal Navy. Brigadier Hickson, director of the British Forces Post Office, said the stamps “perfectly illustrate the huge variety in uniforms worn by both servicemen and women in the Army”.
This is not England’s first go-around with glorifying the troops. Back in 1982 a series of Maritime Heritage stamps were released followed in 1983 with a series of British Army uniforms. No coincidence then that England was engaged in an unpopular war in the Falklands during that time as they are today in Iraq. Possibly this is Britain’s sly way of getting the folks back home to support their foreign policy.
I wonder how long it will be until we here in America get in on our own stamp act?
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