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I agree with your post completely, but OTT is a characteristic of this present generation.
He was a gentleman, he was iconic of a past generation, but his contribution was to walk the length of his garden at the age of 90 with a Zimmer frame, hardly the stuff of statues and state funerals.
What followed was immense, snowball reaction by the media, sweeping Sir Tom in an uncontrolled storm of exaggerated media publicity.
He was typical of a generation which has been forgotten to a large extent.
Grossly OTT ,I agree entirely.