Panorama- The soldiers story
 

Just finished watching it on BBC1.

Wow . I am serving but not in the Infantry.

Big respect to those boys who do that day in day out for 6 months. Even if you dont agree wit hthe whys and wherefores of us being over there, nothing but respect for them. They did not ask to be in that situation but get on with it like true pro's

It humbled me as a Scaley back!

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oh missed it :smt086

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I was trying to put together the words for a post but failed.

I found it quite hard watching in places, to see people working in that much danger and under that much stress.

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I loved their gorilla tactics aproach to it all. and the way they giggled when the bombs were incomming at the Taliban. :cheers:

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...and then they come back to England, ignored at best, ridiculed, vilified and beaten up at worst. Blown up - well f*ck off and tough sh*t, we pay typists with RSI five times as much, and asylum seelkers have better living conditions, you're not welcome here.

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Agreed it is sh*t the way some members of the public can treat our soldiers due to Iraq and Afgan. Me i have never had any one brave enough to say anything to my face.

We never asked to go, well i did not i joined 10 yrs ago barfoe all of it. So why do people try and think its our fault.

Those boys are putting their lives on the line for a 'cause' 99.9% of them dont care about its their job and they get on and do it.

would a lot of the members of the public that speak out and put us down have the courage to face those dangers, and carry on.

I know what that L/Cpl means when he describes how people though he was quiet upon return distant etc. Its hard to explain but when you have not experianced the bonds, the fellowship etc nor the bad experiances you cant understand so why try and explain it? I genuinly missed Iraq when i came back from my first tour, missed my mates and the experiances we shared together.

and i was not even on the front line.

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very true Ed its madness.

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Yeah I heard that program was meant to be one of the most informative programs about the war without inflicting journalists views on to us... Dragons Den was on two though....

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Well said Ed, i was amazed the other day whilst buying my poppy from a WWII veteran, he said that last year he was getting a hard time outside the supermarket by all walks of life, anti-war brigade, young asian types, tree huggers, poor ol bugger couldn't of been less than 80...made my blood boil :smt013

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I thought it was fantastic. Why oh why doesn't this country treat our soldiers better on return from active duty, after all they've been through the least they deserve is out respect! We treat pop stars and so called celebs like the soldiers SHOULD be treated!