I never knew there were rules to it. I'm sure I recall seeing Colonel H's wife wearing his VC years ago. Why shouldn't a wife, mother, son not be able to wear a lost service man's medal with pride? Especially so if it was gained posthumously?
They can and, according to the blurb I posted earlier that`s not what it`s about. It`s the fakers they`re after.
Not actually sure what the problem is with that. People who earned them can wear them. The family of those who earned them can wear them. Dickhead collectors who bought them off eBay or whatever can't wear them. I might be misunderstanding something but that all sounds fair enough to me.
no you are quite correct on your understanding its one thing to get it wrong with honesty and pride another to gain from living a lie and deception.
no you are quite correct on your understanding its one thing to get it wrong with honesty and pride another to gain from living a lie and deception.
So all that's happening is people who wear medals they haven't won on the left is being banned, but genuinely won medals can still be worn on the left and families of service man can still honour their family members can still wear them but only on the right?
Well that's no big deal? Pretty fair and keeping out the con artists while still allowing families to wear them on behalf. Why is Stu stomping round like a right little bitch? It was hardly a thread of honor, just thread sharing some tweeks in law. His disrupted his own thread stomping and finger point too. What pathetic man.
I still don't understand. Tell has a little harmless laugh with Com, niether doing anything wrong, Stu goes at Tel full force while ****s it and says nowt to com, stu still then goes at Tel for comments made on here, only to find the thread has **** all to do with us holding respect to our service men, mearly a thread which refferance the process making sure respected is held in the best taste when it comes to these events of honor in the future. This thread doesn't remotely fit the repsect threads of 'RIP' and 'Hounor' where the unwritten etiquette of maintaining respect maters. Basicly, It just a ****ing off topic news thread where folk can post as they normally would as far as I can see.
I think he's on about folk who can, like old Charlie. A row of medals on his left breast but never been in battle.
There's more to war than the battle though. Christ I think the women of WW2 should have medals even though they weren't in the service, they worked their fingers to bone to make sure the brave man in battle were fed watered and equipped to fight the battle. Obvious outright frauds shouldn't be allowed but that goes with out saying. But being in battle can't be the be all of end end all, because without the rest they'd never make it to battle in the first place. Somebody has to code crack to deliver intelligence. Somebody has slave over a stove in the supply lines to see the soldiers fed. They're a team, a gigantic machine with many parts, unobviousness parts which are still important for the machine to run efficiently. As you know Bill, so much goes into it prior to the battle. Should that be ignored? It's their people too who are being remembered. Despite many not firing a weapon, there was somebody firing to protect them so they can do their job to help keep things running, if medal has been awarded a person should be allowed to wear it with pride. Whether they were on stable duty, or worked the store rooms. It's all one machine to me united in the same course. I bet the man who died would share this view too. I'm not saying they should necessarily be held in the same regard as those who put their life directly on the line, their medals won't reflect that anyway, but their right to pay respects with their medal which represent the part they played(and nothing more) proud on their chest should be respected imo. Unless they claim to be something they're not, they can't be begrudged their medals and the right to wear them while they pay their respects imo.
please log in to view this image 1: Order of Merit, civil version 2: GCB 3: Queen's Service Order (New Zealand) 4: Queen's Coronation medal 5: Queen's Silver Jubilee medal 6: Queen's Golden Jubilee medal 7: Canadian forces decoration 8: NZ commemorative medal 9: Knight of Most Noble Order of the Garter There's nowt in there saying he's something he's not imo. Sovereign medals which mean nowt really other than he's royalty and standard medals. Nowt really overstating his role in the arms service. Let him wear them. They say nowt other than he's royalty who did his little risk free stint anyway.
Just posted his medals there. He's got no real medals of honor anyway. Medals tell the story. His say he's royalty who did his little risk free stint. There's no prestige there other than he crawled out of the queens twat and that will be personal pride an no more. Let him wear them I say, they certainly don't claim him to be anything above his station. Hopefully he'll feel the inadequacy the medals show every time he wears them next to real soldiers.
