"We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." - Winston Churchill.
During his lifetime, Winston Churchill was widely misunderstood. The regular soldier is today also misunderstood, maligned and castigated.
There are too many people, many politicians, this week feeding on vein glories, lying openly to a gullible nation, a revelling in the fact that they can get away with it. Destroying rights, vilifying the brave, undermining the ethos of the brave man, all in the name of political correctness.
It is a different mentality that allows an individual to go through all kinds of hell and emerge a human being at the end of it. How does parliament reward these heroes, by building an exclusion zone around the Mothers of Parliaments, denying front line troops their say whilst paying them a fraction the wage of a bus driver, by destroying the FAMILY of the regiments, the history and the pride that is often all a soldier has when every thing else has gone
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