GC award re-enactment
A big welcome to Family TV and many thanks for making it possible for us to see the George Cross award ceremony re-enactment as it was happening. Please give us more such opportunities. Thanks also to The Times for letting us know about it.
A big welcome to Family TV and many thanks for making it possible for us to see the George Cross award ceremony re-enactment as it was happening. Please give us more such opportunities. Thanks also to The Times for letting us know about it. Congratulations to the Malta Tourism Authority for organising the re-enactment so well.
As someone who was absolutely thrilled to hear of the award of the George Cross to us all in 1942 - even if eight-year-old little me was hoping that each one of us would have our own little medal - I was delighted to be able to follow the re-enactment and in the very same house I lived in during the war. It was great to hear Effie Ciantar's "air raid warning" again and Ġużé Chetcuti's voice reciting some of his war-time poetry; and this not only because I had just finished re-reading his book Ħajti: Mill-Bidu Sa Qrib It-Tmiem in which he describes his World War II experience so well.
There was so much else I enjoyed in the re-enactment: Sir George Borg's magnificent toga, the dust from blitzed buildings on people's clothes, the Latin litany, howlers and all...
However, I would have liked to see more children, not only boys but also girls and babies and at least a friar or two among the people as they would have made the crowd look more realistic.