This rotten Goverment is at it again!

Consider that you have spent over 20 years fighting for this country to be told in an instant that you must now go! You are being kicked out, no longer required, done you're duty, surplus, ex-WD - because that's what it amounts to. The treatment that these guys are getting is beyond belief!! Now hear this Gordon Brown, your Goverment is a dead duck already, but you could save an ounce of dignity by insisting that these guys get what they deserve.....the support of the British Goverment! They must be allowed to stay, and oh by the way, if you want to know who you should deport, drop me a line because I could give you a list of undesirables living here that have done NOTHING for this country (apart from taking the benefits), and who are still pouring in! Probably kicking the Gurkhas out to make room for them, after all somebody has to cut the lettuce, and harvest the potatoes! SHAME ON YOU AND YOUR GOVERNMENT GORDON BROWN!

So now lets hear it from the POE members, what do you think about it? Lets see what we can do to help in the struggle to allow the Gurkhas to remain here.  

It is so sad the way people are treated these days. I remember my dad talking about the vietnam vets that came home and people ignored them, spit at them. How horrible after all they did for our country. It was not their choice to go to vietnam. They were following orders.

A year or two ago, one of our old veterans, resplendent with the chest full of medals he'd earned, was at thew RD parade, and I asked a couple of the Gurkhas if they'd mind posing for a pic with him.  When they said yes (immediate response) it really made his day, and I was only too happy to give him a copy of the pic.   I'll try to dig out some of the pics I took of them and post it on the Spennymoor page, if I can remember to!

On 23rd August 2008 13:27, Catherine England Schleunes wrote:

It is so sad the way people are treated these days. I remember my dad talking about the vietnam vets that came home and people ignored them, spit at them. How horrible after all they did for our country. It was not their choice to go to vietnam. They were following orders.

How very right you are, Catherine.  There is a terrible lack of respect, and unfortunately it seems to have spread everywehere.  In my book a lack of respect for heroes, which is the only way you can describe men or women who have put their lives on the line for things we take for granted, is a caused by parents who have failed to instil any real values into the children., often because they have none to pass on.

Sorry.  I really shouldn't get on my soapbox!  Now you know why.