Help for Heroes, feature in Cyprus Today

Yellowbelly


Joined: 17/05/2009
Posts: 70

Message Posted:
29/08/2009 14:47

Great feature in the Weekend Cyprus Today about the charity Help for Heroes and how one mum is coping with looking after her son injured in Iraq. Now there is a cause worth supporting. . .

scoobydoo


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 2434

Message Posted:
29/08/2009 14:52

I couldn't agree with you more Yellowbelly. Fantastic article!!

Woodspeckie


Joined: 25/01/2009
Posts: 2263

Message Posted:
29/08/2009 15:03

It shouldn't take a charity to help these Hero's the Government should be paying out instead of paying benefits to all the people who haven't paid into the system.

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
29/08/2009 15:21

Woodspeckie - hear! hear!



Remember the slogan following the end of the Second World War?



"Homes for Heroes" which, in reality, became "Heroes for Homes"



Deja-vu?



J

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
29/08/2009 15:22

Sorry - think that should have been:



"Homes fit for Heroes" which actually became "Heroes fit for Homes"



J

lovingcyprus


Joined: 02/03/2007
Posts: 1272

Message Posted:
29/08/2009 16:06

The Labour government are full of bullshit and tell endless lies.



I say send them all to Afghanistan and let them walk in front of the troops looking for IED's that might just make them support our Armed Forces a little.

AnthonySmith


Joined: 14/05/2009
Posts: 455

Message Posted:
29/08/2009 17:51

Just reading up on my World War One history. The blokes that survived the hells of Mons, the Retreat from Mons, Ypres, Somme, Third Ypres and the rest were told their jobs would be kept open and they would be returning to a Britain fit for heroes.

Many had to resort to begging. No jobs, and theirs filled in many cases by men who - for one reason or another - had kept well away from any trouble.

And here we are, nearly a hundred years later, in the same bloody mess.

Woodspeckie


Joined: 25/01/2009
Posts: 2263

Message Posted:
29/08/2009 18:55

Our Gordon has been on a surprise visit to meet the troops, how do they find any soldiers who want to shake his hand they must have orders to do so. What is going on at home they want to hide behind this visit?

Yellowbelly


Joined: 17/05/2009
Posts: 70

Message Posted:
29/08/2009 22:13

Agreed, government has let our Boys down, no surprise there!

However, this story is about those who have to pick up the pieces at home of shattered lives. They deserve our support. To call the soldiers 'brave' is just a cliché... and to call their parents 'brave' is just an insult. They just get on with it.

Riveting reading.