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26th February 2015 #1
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A true hero - Lance Corporal Joshua Leakey VC
Para becomes first living VC recipient of Afghan war
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...fghan-war.html
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26th February 2015 #2
I para, you know the old saying, "there are only 2 things that fall from the sky bird crap and ............. " I was in Aldershot yesterday, or as we now call it, Aldersh*t!
Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again. But life goes on.
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the passion that she shows to the outside world.
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26th February 2015 #3
I like what he said after receiving his VC, he didn't want to let the maroon machine down
Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again. But life goes on.
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the passion that she shows to the outside world.
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26th February 2015 #4
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27th February 2015 #5
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28th February 2015 #6L/Cpl Joshua Leakey has been awarded Britain’s highest award for bravery in the face of the enemy more than 70 years after a relative posthumously won the same medal
Very Brave man.
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28th February 2015 #7
Takes the p out of striking fireman - what a hero!
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28th February 2015 #8
Talking , what's striking got to do with it ?
Is this fireman not a hero whether he strikes or not ?
Firefighter risks life to save woman, 95
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28th February 2015 #9
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28th February 2015 #10
Generally no - can you give me firefighters lost in action compared to soldiers?
Soldiers don't strike, firemen do - putting lives at risk! No comparison.
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28th February 2015 #11
Who sent him to fight ? The government !
Who's over the firemen, the government.
They don't have that right now, but maybe soon you'll be calling them, when they go on strike for increasing the risks to their lives because of cutbacks, lack of equipment and lack of rights.
European court strikes down France’s ban on soldiers’ trade unions
The decision has implications for other European countries, such as the UK and Italy, who also forbid soldiers’ unions and for Portugal, where the right exists in theory but not in practice, according to Danish soldiers’ union leader, Flemming Vinther.
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28th February 2015 #12
I pay for them, so I'm entitled to use them.
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28th February 2015 #13
VC= very courageous!
................ ... ... whatever the recipient's occupation, IMO.
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28th February 2015 #14
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28th February 2015 #15
What does 'lack of equipment have to do with the fireman's strike, its about pensions....
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28th February 2015 #16
The Prime Minister said: “When you hear how events unfolded and the intensity of enemy fire, it is difficult to imagine how one wouldn't be frozen to the spot and yet L/Cpl Leakey risked his life to run across that barren hillside not just once, but multiple times, to turn the battle and save the lives of comrades.
“And that is why he deserves the highest honour for bravery the nation can give.”
What does he know about it? The closest he has been to a war is in the House of Commons and he is losing that one.
There were/are a lot of brave people out there. Not all put forward though. Some would argue that he was just doing his job and what he had been trained for.
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28th February 2015 #17
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28th February 2015 #18
Why involve politics in the first place? I was pointing out that there were a lot of brave soldiers out there to get a bravery medal you have to be put forward by the military hierachy first.
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28th February 2015 #20
Nice one Arthur. We must see things that others do not.
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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3038439/Paratrooper-risked-life-three-times-Taliban-firefight-receives-VC-Queen.html
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