Repatriation Ceremony

[Lee Winger]

Just watched this appalling spectacle of human loss, watching these young lads in Union Jack drapped coffins come off a plane and go into a hearse is enough to bring a tear to the eye........

 

 

 

These lads signed up to fight and protect this country! not die in some Afghan desert hell hole for, dare I say it nothing!!

 

 

 

No politicians to meet them! and at least pay some respect! makes me sick! I hope this government is proud of its self, and the electorate remember these young lads when it comes to the next election!!

[Andy Collins]

These brave lads/lasses volunteer to join the Armed Forces, they are not press-ganged, coerced or forced in any way to do so. We do not have conscription here. They accept that its not all skiing trips, sunny beaches and the such like. Yes to us it seems like their lives have been wasted, but surely to speak like this means their lives HAVE been wasted. They served their country and for that I can only thank them.

[Quickthorn]

..and while that ceremony's going on, MOD solicitors are busy in court trying to claw back compensation paid to 2 soldiers wounded on duty..that on the back of the Gurkhas affair.

 

I think the phrase "lions led by donkeys" was coined almost 100 years ago for WW1..looks like it's still true today.

[Mike Hill]

It is true that the role of the armed forces is to protect the UK and her allies.However unless you want soldiers fighting the enemy in the Streets of your homeland,then you have to fight them in the Streets of theirs.

[Mark Bolam]

It is true that the role of the armed forces is to protect the UK and her allies.However unless you want soldiers fighting the enemy in the Streets of your homeland,then you have to fight them in the Streets of theirs.

 

Couldn't have put it better Mike.

 

The fallen would not like to think they had died in vain.

[Tom D]

Sad though it is I'd rather young radical muslims from the UK went to afganistan to fight "our boys" (as many of them do) on our terms than attack civilians here as on 7/7. At least over there we get to fight back and there are no hotshot human rights lawyers standing up for the terorists.

 

The real scandal is the way they are crying out for helicopters out there and we have a hanger full of brand new chinooks that cant be used because of software problems, they have been there for 8 years!!!

[Mick Stockbridge]

I think its a terrible waste of lives, just imagine never seeing a loved one again. I saw a bit of the ceremony on the news last night Lee. Very touching...What a waste.

[penfold]

i have a few mates in the forces and i dread that one day it could be one of them coming back and going on the final drive through wooton bassett and being honoured by the locals and their name going on the wall at the National Memorial Arboretum which is why i signed the Royal British Legion's Honour the covenant petition last year.