Thank you LL,
My family have connections with the Royal Air Force, the Royal Navy and the Army,... many past relatives have suffered death and serious injury due to Armed conflicts that a succession of British Goverments have allowed themselve the vanity of becomming involved in. In sending our armed services and many brave young men and women who make up the majority of numbers in those services to far off lands, we try and put right what the so called Diplomats could not , we are a civilised Nation , we care for other people and how they are treated and governed, but in this current conflict our Armed services are trying to do their job governed by the rule book of Civilised Warfare under the guise and cloak of the United Nations, my youngest son will be in the Afghan theatre in a couple of months, and sadly we are more fearful than he is.
Whenever the pictures of Wootten Bassett and those wonderful towns people who stand in silent tribute to the returned fallen are shown live on the TV,... it reduces my entire family to tears of sadness for those fallen and their families, my heart felt feelings go out to every family who has lost some one of their own, ... but equally.. I thank with all my feelings and emotions those fine people of Wootten Bassett, who in all weather turn out to stand in silent tribute to our fallen, they are our proxy for the entire Nation.
Peter Russell-Blackburn
Lancashire