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Old 5th Jul 2012, 07:16
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Samuel
 
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Spare a thought..

Just look at the faces of these very ordinary Kiwis who, as very young men went out night after night. This trip to the UK can't have been easy for them, even with the help provided. Their ages range from mid 80s to mid 90s. They are no different really from a group of Englishmen, or Australians, or Canadians, but they opted to be there and that says heaps to me. They are a part of a bunch of young guys the like of which we will probably never see again. Not my generation, but I have enormous respect for all of them. Mind you, it's just as well they landed at Brize; had they gone to Heathrow they would have been directed to the Aliens gate!

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