Re: VC given to Brit Warrior driver for actions in Iraq

The GZG Digest wrote on 4/28/2005 1:00 AM:

Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:45:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Thomas Barclay" <kaladorn@magma.ca>
> 
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1441055,00.html

The BBC's news item from March 18 is slightly better only because it has

a picture of him.

The original story is here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4358921.stm

The full citation, with another picture, is here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4360461.stm

> This isn't just the pathetic retelling you get from one line news
summaries. This is the
> citation in full. It is quite a read. When I read the media blurbs, I
thought "Have they
> dropped the standards for the VC? Doesn't seem quite worthy...." but
after reading the
> citation, I have no doubts - he earned his medal the hard way.

I agree. The point where I went, "My god!" was when he climbed onto the 
Warrior the third time to drive it to the safety of a perimeter "thus 
denying it to the enemy". Above and beyond the call of duty, indeed.

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