Tuesday, September 25

Two types of British Hero's - one sung about, one quiet and unsung

We hear about brave British Squaddies who managed to rescue Italians from the grasp of the Taliban. I quote

Helicopter-borne British special forces yesterday rescued two Italian soldiers, killing their captors in a gunfight in western Afghanistan, defence sources said.
Troops from the Special Boat Service, the navy's equivalent of the SAS, were called in by Nato after intelligence reports that the Italians were about to be moved from a building east of the town of Farah. The SBS troopers were taken to the area by helicopter, and as Italian commandos stormed the building, the SBS attacked the two trucks in which the captors were about to drive the Italians away.


Brave men. But here is another story of another British Hero. These are the sandwich generation who exhibit familial duty without a moan. Hero's? I think so.

A hat-tip to both!

All this to be taken with a grain of piquant salt!!!

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