leonard cheshire foundation
Having just put the phone down from talking to a nice lady at the offices of the foundation, I thought you might be interested to hear that (rather wearily) "we are NOT getting rid of the Leonard Cheshire name - we have been grossly misrepresented in the press". I suggested that someone in their office takes a look in here and gets a feel for the strength of emotion that we (ex)aviators have about the crassness of their move. I also suggested that if under 35s don't know who he is, then for Gawd's sake tell them!! She suggested that "it was felt that war heroes were a bit non-PC" and that "different approaches would be better" without telling the poor dears what he'd done before. I expressed the opinion that that was one of the sadder things I'd heard in a long time and who were the prats who thought this? Perhaps we should be told their names?
BTW all the jumbles of different case letters an aspirational sounding titles were sh5tcanned before the start. Allegedly.
The Ancient Mariner
(I could become a crabby old bastard if I reely reely tried)