17-06-2007, 18:30
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Re: War veterans
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Originally Posted by steeljack
Another difference between the UK and US forces is that the US after the end of WW2 has allways tried to bring its dead home for burial , none of the stiff upper lip, laying in a foriegn field stuff , infact last week some remains from the Korean conflict were returned stateside and recieved full military funerals, as recently as the Falklands war the British war dead were still being buried in battlefield gravesites and not returned to the UK.
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And your point is what?
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