Dean wrote:LordRaven wrote:HobbitFeet wrote:there's estimated to be between 7 and 13 thousand ex-military on the streets, many with mental health issues, and many with service stretching back to the Falklands
it's a national disgrace and I'm more than happy for my poppy money to go towards picking up the pieces that politics leaves behind
(in the 90's it was estimated that something like 20% of homeless males in London had a service background)
I took my mate, who was in charge of stretcher bearers on Mount Tumbledown, out for drinks recently. I did my bit.
And I bought a poppy --well picked one up and dropped £2 into the donation box.
You have a mate that relates to the topic of the thread, and seen him recently? What a fucking shock!!!
Lots actually Dean, I was in for 12 years and my battalion went up Mount Tumbledown and a few got killed and many were wounded in life changing ways.
Being a war dodger, on an extra regimental posting for a period of two years, I never went myself --something I regretted at the time but today I am no longer bothered.
On Saturday I was getting lots of calls and text messages to go and join them all in Wellington Barracks but my days of marching are long gone.