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11-24-2007, 04:15 PM
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Shameful. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...2/narmy322.xml Quote:
Disabled veterans jeered at swimming pool
By Thomas Harding, Lucy Cockcroft and Brendan Carlin
Last Updated: 11:07am GMT 24/11/2007
Injured soldiers who lost their limbs fighting for their country have been driven from a swimming pool training session by jeering members of the public.
The men, injured during tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, were taking part in a rehabilitation session at a leisure centre, when two women demanded they be removed from the pool. They claimed that the soldiers "hadn't paid" and might scare the children.
The incident has sparked widespread condemnation. Adml Lord Boyce, a former head of the Armed Forces, said last night the women should be "named and shamed".
British soldiers
The disabled men were injured during tours of Iraq and Afghanistan
"These people are beneath contempt and everything should be done to get their names and publish them in the press," he said. "It is contemptible that people who have given up their limbs for their country should be so abused when they are trying to get fit again."
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01-06-2008, 10:23 PM
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07-14-2008, 07:54 AM
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Rep Power: 0 | | | 'Two Women, Alledgedly, Thought Veterans Hadn't Paid to Swim' would look a lot less dramatic, of course. Shameful journalism, certainly. |
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Originally Posted by GunnyL I totally agree. | I'm scared of who would NOT agree, although I guess you never know in this day and age... |
07-14-2008, 09:48 AM
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Rep Power: 41 | | | You know how those disabled soldiers are - disrespected, disillusioned and dismembered.
Every generation of soldiers thinks they're going to be honored for their service and then they come back to learn that nobody really gives a damn. There's lots of lip service, but when it time to pay thier bills?
The Viet Nam vets, of course, got treated worse than any other in American history, but I'm seeing that the Iraqi vets are going to be largely forgotten, too.
What's the poster that was popular when I was in
We the unwilling, doing the impossible, for the ungrateful.
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07-14-2008, 10:34 AM
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Originally Posted by editec You know how those disabled soldiers are - disrespected, disillusioned and dismembered.
Every generation of soldiers thinks they're going to be honored for their service and then they come back to learn that nobody really gives a damn. There's lots of lip service, but when it time to pay thier bills?
The Viet Nam vets, of course, got treated worse than any other in American history, but I'm seeing that the Iraqi vets are going to be largely forgotten, too.
What's the poster that was popular when I was in
We the unwilling, doing the impossible, for the ungrateful.
Something like that. |
My brother was in Viet Nam, still to this day hates to talk about it.
No matter what your politics are, utmost respect should be given to all people in the armed forces. I respect them, as I'm sure 99.9% of Americans do.
One of my classes favorite things is when we write letters to the soliders overseas.
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07-14-2008, 01:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Echo Zulu
One of my classes favorite things is when we write letters to the soliders overseas. | Send them the letters R,N, R
They seem to like those letters a lot.
Lord only knows why. |
07-14-2008, 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by editec Send them the letters R,N, R
They seem to like those letters a lot.
Lord only knows why. |
The Royal Naval Reserve?
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07-14-2008, 01:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Echo Zulu The Royal Naval Reserve? |
Possibly.
You know how wierd guys get in combat.
No tellin' really.
but by all mean keep sending them letters.
Numbers they don't seem to care so much for. |
07-14-2008, 04:15 PM
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Rep Power: 1 | | | Can you really compare two bitches with a cabal of psychotic bitches.
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08-06-2008, 10:57 AM
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Rep Power: 9 | | | Yes, this is an example of how despicable some people are. Fortunately, in the UK people like this are the exception rather than the rule.
One of the bitches was complaining that she had paid to use the pool, whereas the soldiers had not. To f***ing ignorant to realise that these soldiers have paid a far higher price for the right to use the pool than she would ever contemplate for herself. |
08-06-2008, 11:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Bootneck Yes, this is an example of how despicable some people are. Fortunately, in the UK people like this are the exception rather than the rule.
One of the bitches was complaining that she had paid to use the pool, whereas the soldiers had not. To f***ing ignorant to realise that these soldiers have paid a far higher price for the right to use the pool than she would ever contemplate for herself. | Hello - you still alive? What's the evidence that this ever happened, let alone that such behaviour is 'British'? It sounds to me to be the standard extreme-right paranoia, rather unusual in the UK: most British people would be FAR to embarrassed to say any such thing, even if they felt it, which I doubt not just very much but absolutely. This is standard journalistic codswallop, written for reactionaries to throw pretend fits. I should move on to 'political correctness' - there's always some mileage in that limping, ludicrous myth, because some half-witted right-wing local government officers believe they have to act it out! It all saves us from real politics, fair play!.  |
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