[Doug]

In perspective but on a greatly smaller scale. Troops are always jubilant in victory are when they have a result in Battle. It’s not personal it’s a way of dealing with a lot of feelings, its gallows humour……In NI a company of a famous unit had a big sign in the bar. It read “Vauxhall Astra –Built by robots, Stopped by D. Coy” to visiting troops and other services thought it was hilarious, but it commemorated the deaths of a number of joy riders including a beautiful young girl which these lads had to come to terms with in their own way…….any victory will be celebrated, get use to it because no matter how unpalatable it is if they stop doing so, they will stop coping………..