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Sue1 · 21-01-2008, 22:50

I just don't believe it - I have only just read it here (about soldiers having to take their uniforms off on the runway at Birmingham). How many more insults to soldiers, most of whom are young, from people who should know better. Perhaps they would prefer to have been German speaking (I am sure that is not racially correct and I do not apologise). I expect the union jack has to come off the coffin before the dead returning from Afghanistan can be allowed in - mustn't let anyone think the English are patriotic - heaven forbid. Since the only military hospital we now have is not a military hospital but a section of a General Hospital in Birmingham (cost cutting exercise) the airport must find it very distasteful if it has not been possible to remove all of the uniform from an injured soldier - or do they make them come into Brize Norton and travel up by road.
The reason I have my beard in a blaze is that today I heard from my daughter that her five year old daughter was told off at school for wanting to draw her uncle's tank (my son is in Afghanistan and has been since mid-october - his 1st child was born on 31st October). She was told that she had to learn that not all people around her would like it and may be upset and no she couldn't nor should she talk about him - I wonder if the school and Government has heard the expression - "If you can't stand the heat in the kitchen get out"!
I am even more disgusted by this because yesterday we received a message to say that our son's tank had gone over a landmine and he had been hit by shrapnel - in the head. He is not dead but apart from us who the hell would care if he was - certainly not Gordon Broon. Jeremy Clarkson would make an infinitely better Prime Minister and I would vote for him. The British by and large are a very tolerent race for the most part but straws are beginning to break the camels back.
I am sure this is all politically and racially incorrect and I don't give a dam and stand by every word of it. What I am ashamed of recently is to have British on my passport and I never thought I would say that at my age.
One day we will no longer have an army, the pacifists will be happy though, won't they, so that must be OK - oh, and I forgot to mention of course that the army are grossly overpaid.

21-01-2008, 22:50	#18
Sue1 Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Cambridgeshire Posts: 71 Liked: 1 times Rep Power: 0	Re: An insult to our soldiers.. I just don't believe it - I have only just read it here (about soldiers having to take their uniforms off on the runway at Birmingham). How many more insults to soldiers, most of whom are young, from people who should know better. Perhaps they would prefer to have been German speaking (I am sure that is not racially correct and I do not apologise). I expect the union jack has to come off the coffin before the dead returning from Afghanistan can be allowed in - mustn't let anyone think the English are patriotic - heaven forbid. Since the only military hospital we now have is not a military hospital but a section of a General Hospital in Birmingham (cost cutting exercise) the airport must find it very distasteful if it has not been possible to remove all of the uniform from an injured soldier - or do they make them come into Brize Norton and travel up by road. The reason I have my beard in a blaze is that today I heard from my daughter that her five year old daughter was told off at school for wanting to draw her uncle's tank (my son is in Afghanistan and has been since mid-october - his 1st child was born on 31st October). She was told that she had to learn that not all people around her would like it and may be upset and no she couldn't nor should she talk about him - I wonder if the school and Government has heard the expression - "If you can't stand the heat in the kitchen get out"! I am even more disgusted by this because yesterday we received a message to say that our son's tank had gone over a landmine and he had been hit by shrapnel - in the head. He is not dead but apart from us who the hell would care if he was - certainly not Gordon Broon. Jeremy Clarkson would make an infinitely better Prime Minister and I would vote for him. The British by and large are a very tolerent race for the most part but straws are beginning to break the camels back. I am sure this is all politically and racially incorrect and I don't give a dam and stand by every word of it. What I am ashamed of recently is to have British on my passport and I never thought I would say that at my age. One day we will no longer have an army, the pacifists will be happy though, won't they, so that must be OK - oh, and I forgot to mention of course that the army are grossly overpaid.