The date is July 27, 2012, and in London the Olympic Games are about to begin. For months, the British people have been looking forward to the jamboree of patriotic enthusiasm. But now that the day is here, the mood feels heavy with gloom. The crowds are thin, the drizzle pours down. The Union Flags hang forlornly in the dull breeze. Even the nation's new Prime Minister, the blinking, stammering Ed Miliband, cuts a remarkably limp figure, a melancholy leader for a nation sunk in misery. Read more Here
Oh dear the Daily Mail has just become a red top printing fiction but then again I suppose 99% of what they write is fiction , the only plausible part of this article is the reference to Ed Milliband.
It is with great sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm the death of a member of the Royal Air Force on Friday 23rd December 2011. Read more HERE R.I.P.
Those that have never experienced War will always think War a good idea,
Tony McNally
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The Union flag does not fly because the wind moves past it. The Union flag flies from the last breath of each military member who has died protecting it. British servicemen and women don't fight because they hate what's in front of them...they fight because they love what's behind them.
A quarter of homeless people are ex-services and 5,000 former service personnel are in prison.
The Red Poppy Company.
Did you know that each year an average of ten Falklands veterans commit suicide, this means that more soldiers have killed themselves since the end of that war than the fewer than two hundred and fifty eight who died during it.
(Source: Times cover story 12/11/02)
A "tsunami" of mental health problems resulting from the war in Iraq is "headed our way," - -