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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
Politicians only appreciate the armed forces when they want to use them and then expect to be able to prat around with the defence budget and interfere in appropriations whilst forgetting about the people. Whilst our loses in the official wars should always be remembered and honoured it would be nice if a means to pay tribute to the special and covert services personnel that die in between the public wars could happen. Those people are no less of a loss but rarely get mentioned or honoured even their funerals are treated almost like dirty secrets.
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Indeed and not just the special forces either. I was a submariner in the early 70s during the cold war and we had losses even then, but they were classed as tragic accidents cause we were in places that we shouldn`t be and so have not been officially recognised. I think but not sure that Hugh on here was in places where he shouldn`t be as well.