portwait,
A "spokeswoman," do you have a problem with women? How on earth does the fact that the MOD spokesperson was female enter into this AT ALL?
Where on earth do you get that this somehow makes Nelson female? Life on your planet must be rather different from ours..........
I do find all of this rather odd, we don't have any of this nonsense every Sept with the Battle of Britain, some dullard who would make a good local councillor with special reponsibility for traffic calming and speed restrictions just HAS to be resonsible for this.