Thanatos Report This Comment Date: July 02, 2009 02:39AM
Britain unveiled a new medal Wednesday that will be offered to families of
about 8,000 military personnel killed on active duty or in terrorist attacks
since World War II.
The nearest kin of military personnel killed in Northern Ireland, the Falklands,
Iraq and Afghanistan will be among those eligible to receive the Elizabeth
Cross, which is named after the reigning monarch.
Queen Elizabeth II told soldiers worldwide in an address on British Forces
Broadcasting Service that the medal and accompanying scroll would demonstrate
"our enduring debt to those who are killed while actively protecting what
is most dear to us all."
The Defense Ministry said it will contact families of the most recently slain
soldiers. Relatives of pre-2000 fatalities must apply themselves for one of the
silver emblems, which will carry the images of the national flowers of England,
Scotland, Wales and Ireland.
The medal is the first to bear the name of a reigning monarch since the queen's
father King George VI began awarding the George Cross from 1940 to recognized
feats of extraordinary bravery.
The Defense Ministry said the new medal would cover campaigns in Palestine from
September 1945 to the end of 1947, the Falklands and Northern Ireland conflicts,
as well as wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The honor will also apply to those killed in terrorist attacks, including the
two unarmed British soldiers who were shot dead in March by Irish Republican
Army dissidents outside a Northern Ireland army base — the first killings of
troops in the British territory since the IRA's 1997 cease-fire.
president sleeted Report This Comment Date: July 02, 2009 04:44AM
mann, fuck all these dead pigs (the troops are just pigs, on an international
scale) fuck their families too
Mrkim Report This Comment Date: July 02, 2009 02:28PM
^^^^^^ Obviously you've overlooked the obvious, figures, but.... ^^^^^^
Best to keep in mind everyone of those "pigs" you mentioned was
someones son, daughter, husband, wife, brother, sister, father or mother,
meaning they were all fellow humans with other humans that loved and cared them.
They weren't some nameless, faceless entity and certainly deserve more respect
than what you're giving them in your blanket summation of them.
Every barrel contains both good and bad apples assuredly but sayin the whole
barrel's bad because of a few in the mix is too broadstroked a brush to paint
such an image with
southern outlaw Report This Comment Date: July 03, 2009 09:16AM
ear mr president sleeted, your ip address has been forwarded to osama bin
laden, aas well as your name and home address, he will be coming for you, my pig
brother and pig sisters and i know where you live, and when he gets here to cut
off your balls and force feed them to you, dont call us to come save your sorry
ass, as we will remember your last comment, and will only be more than happy to
video tape your castration, you are now taken off the protected list, you limp
wristed balls sucking scurvy fuck....do try and have a nice day