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gilliam
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This is a BIG DEAL:
From the AFP via the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) :
A soldier from the Caribbean island of Grenada has become the first person for 23 years to win Britain’s highest military honour, the Victoria Cross. Private Johnson Beharry, 25, joined the British Army in 2001 and served in Iraq last year.
He received the award for two separate acts of heroism in which he saved the lives of more than 30 colleagues during insurgent attacks.
The amazing details of Pvt Beharry’s valour are available in full at the UK Telegraph.
“Some Talk of Alexander,
And some of Hercules.
Of Hector and Lysander,
And such brave names as these.
But of all the world’s great heroes,
There’s none that can compare,
With a Tow-row-row-row Row-row
To a British Grenadieran.”
With apologies to the regimental march of the First Foot Guards
command-post.org/2_archives/019154.html
From the AFP via the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) :
A soldier from the Caribbean island of Grenada has become the first person for 23 years to win Britain’s highest military honour, the Victoria Cross. Private Johnson Beharry, 25, joined the British Army in 2001 and served in Iraq last year.
He received the award for two separate acts of heroism in which he saved the lives of more than 30 colleagues during insurgent attacks.
The amazing details of Pvt Beharry’s valour are available in full at the UK Telegraph.
“Some Talk of Alexander,
And some of Hercules.
Of Hector and Lysander,
And such brave names as these.
But of all the world’s great heroes,
There’s none that can compare,
With a Tow-row-row-row Row-row
To a British Grenadieran.”
With apologies to the regimental march of the First Foot Guards
command-post.org/2_archives/019154.html