Via Vicki Woods in The Telegraph:
Howe & Co’s next campaign is for L/Cpl Gyanendra Rai, who fought
and nearly died at Bluff Cove in the Falklands. He was saved by British
Army doctors, who grafted skin from a British soldier on to his
appalling wounds. He still suffers from his wounds, but gets no pension
at all, having been invalided out before he finished his 15 years. Look
him up: his story will make you howl.
Read it here.
Howl? With rage, at the idle, spavined fuckwits who rule us, yes.
It’s been going on for centuries, Nelson’s sailors, the Last of the Light Brigade and Kipling’s Tommy Atkins, yes, we know, but aren’t we supposed to be progressing, getting better all the time?
As I said some time ago about Private Beharry VC, lucky the country that attracts such men to fight for it, as with Mr. Rai, Mr. Pun VC and the rest of them.
The least we can damn well do is fucking take care of them.
Shits. Deal with it, action this day.
Otherwise you’ll find yourself at the business end of a pitchfork one fine day as we peasants revolt.
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