The Military Cross is awarded in recognition of "exemplary gallantry" and is the third highest medal for bravery.

BBC: Northampton council could join Walter Tull medal campaign

The new photography could only hint at where the original lines of text once were, but it recorded the 18th Century inscription describing the re-erection of the cross before it, too, is weathered beyond recognition.

BBC: 9th Century Pillar of Eliseg

Victims are not cross-examined aggressively in austere courtrooms, but given time, respect and recognition.

ECONOMIST: National reconciliation

His Aron, seeking isolation, smiles in self-recognition: he knows that he has nailed himself to his own peculiar cross.

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