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To those who might feel as I do...
Topic Started: 14 Mar 2009, 01:48 AM (23 Views)
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To those who might feel as I do about the sad fact Sappers Azimkar and Quinsey will not have a medal to adorn their coffins, I would ask a great favour.

Would you E mail the Minister for veterans, Mr Evans

jonesk@parliament.uk

and let him know that you support the introduction of a National Defence Medal based directly on the Australian model, which would have covered this contingency precisely and left the bereaved relatives with a tangible sign of regret, remorse, sympathy and appreciation. Every other Army in Europe and the Commonwealth has someting like this in its panoply of awards, Britain is still firmly wedded to the 19th Century in its attitudes, save only when political expediency demands a knighthood for an old IRA sympathiser.
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