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Topic History of: "Oh she was such a wonderful woman"... Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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Clifford
Unless you're a Gurkha. Where you get a right ROYAL send off!
Solihull Exile
The vast majority of people join the forces young...and it's a carear choice.
Just don't bet to hang around to get the pension!
Clifford
I would argue that the media got this right. She was not a " killing machine " but a libetarian, trying to defend others not as priviliiged. Thats what makes it more poignant and newsworthy.
Mart
What I don`t like jp, is that kids do not seem to realise that their good new,and "fun" job involves killing.
I am not happy with this "fight club, waged and fun time attitude",that sends our kids into a war that actually nobody recalls what is about????
When anyone, has to attend a funeral of one of these young people, as we have done, they will understand quite how horrible this , unending and unresolvable war is.
Or ,in internet speak, to the casual browser of web sites.......
WTF is this about war about anymore?
No winners................
jp
I would dispute that the British Armed Forces are employed to kill innocent people and if they are, with the resources available to them, they are not doing a very good job.
As part of the media coverage JK, you will no doubt have read that women in the forces are not used in a front line killing role.