No help for war veterans
The government has refused to fund a trip to France for surviving Normandy war veterans to celebrate the 65th Anniversary of D-Day.
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"If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home".
(Rupert Brooke, The Soldier)
A mixture of law, politics, autobiography and humour. Once described as "The Devilish Advocate" (Guardian), I do have the ability to provoke a response. Sometimes it comes from someone who uses a thought process, and sometimes from jerks usually associated with the knee.
Decision stinks.
ReplyDeleteConfirms Nulabor's contempt for national pride and all that is British .... especially it's freedom.
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