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Originally Posted by Damien
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His name was Jamie Janes. It's not unthinkable he thought it was James. Could easily have heard wrong, saw it written wrong, and so on. The fact is that Brown obviously writes to every soldiers family and if the story was he sent out letters written by someone else then there would also be outrage.
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It don't think there are any excuses for getting the name of a dead soldier wrong if you are writing his family a personal letter. He would have had full details of the dead soldier's name, and to get that wrong, in my opinion, is extremely poor and I'd add distasteful. When I write a letter to someone I don't know personally I make sure I double check the details to make sure they are correct. For Gordon Brown not to do so in this case might be forgiveable, but its extremely poor.