As Vance’s emotional moment ricocheted through headlines, the reaction in Britain took on a raw, almost personal edge. For many there, his words were not a policy disagreement but a wound reopened. Families who had stood graveside, veterans who still woke to the echoes of gunfire, felt as though their sacrifice had been quietly pushed aside in a new, convenient narrative. Their outrage was less about Vance himself and more about what he seemed to forget.
