A wild statue about Prince Harry

JOHN STILLWELL/AFP/Getty Images Back in October, Passport noted a British war memorial that used Prince Harry’s restriction from the Iraq conflict to honor those British citizens “brave at heart” but unable to serve in the troubled region. You may remember that the shocking memorial — which depicts the prince’s “war-mutilated” body lying dead with a ...

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JOHN STILLWELL/AFP/Getty Images

JOHN STILLWELL/AFP/Getty Images

Back in October, Passport noted a British war memorial that used Prince Harry’s restriction from the Iraq conflict to honor those British citizens “brave at heart” but unable to serve in the troubled region. You may remember that the shocking memorial — which depicts the prince’s “war-mutilated” body lying dead with a desert vulture perched at his feet — is meant to express the “unfulfilled patriotic aspiration” of soldiers who want, but are unable, to fight.

Today, in a story broken by Matt Drudge, it was revealed that Prince Harry has in fact been fighting in Afghanistan under a British media blackout for the past few months … thus making what was formerly just the worst war memorial ever now the world’s most awkward.

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