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maybe

we should just stick with the queen

Initially I posted that I thought if families were happy with it then it would be OK but now I've gone through the input on here I've changed my mind - I no longer think it's a good idea. That's what's so good about debates on here - getting everyone's point of view.

On a light note - it must be a pretty short extract from a letter!
Seriously though, the sensitivities to be observed in putting the faces of recent casualties on postage stamps could potentially present an absolute minefield (no pun whatsoever intended!).

thank you all for your imput

I have not once criticised an individual for voluntarily taking a job that is known to carry risks.
As for giving us a free life and preventing us from being terrorised... I think it is well documented and widely accepted that our presence in the Iraq theatre has increased the risk level from terrorism rather than lowered it.
However, back to the original point. Why should we put faces of deceased military personnel on postage stamps?

Oh Errol behave ................ they do have a choice whether to sign up or not you ar right
My daughter had a choice and she signed up and I'm a very proud parent of a young lady who is now serving our country as her grandfather and great grandfather before her did to give us a free life and not to be terrorised in anyway.........In my book that choice was right and deserves respect

As for faces on stamps no,

i dont think its a good idea i mean if i lost aloved one last thing i would want is a reminder everytime i got me post........

saying that i do have all respect for the lads who are out there i have close friends who are there and im terrified for them

Too many do not - for some it is all too easy just to buy a poppy. Sadly, many do not even observe the two minutes' silence. But this is a far more apt, fitting, personal and meaningful way to remember those who have fallen rather than a token gesture by printing a limited number of anonymous faces on postage stamps for a brief period of time.

I never miss our local Remembrance Parade at our village war memorial - it's just part of life - always plant a cross for my Dad's brother who was killed at nineteen years of age and is on the memorial - Thiepval in Belgium. His life had hardly begun and though I never met him I could weep buckets for him.

let's all be most grateful that young men and women do enlist in the forces or where would we be without them? I for one am enormously grateful to all our armed servicemen and women - of course they do not HAVE to enlist, they have a choice, but I am very grateful they do and so should we all be grateful to them.

Deanna a young man has a choice whether to enrol as a squaddie or not.

In Flanders Fields (Major John McCrae)

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

so do you want the photos

on the stamps

DEANNA TODAY 17.37.....
PS.... a young man has a choice to sign or not.
A SQUADDIE has no choice.


Errol, read that as I have written it please

When you have read it, try and remember that a mother with a son in any theatre of war...... is not interested in your opinion of the war.... she just has a passionate and painful need to have her son back.
Good night all.
Deanna X

It was also suggested on this thread that we should have a parade.
Um, don't we already do that on an annual basis on Remembrance Day?

Helen I am not sure which points you mean. If you mean the question as to whether I carried out National Service then I don't actually think that is of anybody's business as far as this debate is concerned.
Twizzle how am I trying to wind people up? The question was whether stamps should be used and my viewpoint is that they should not. Am I only allowed to add to a thread if I agree?
Deanna my reference to National Service was that nobody is coerced into serving in the forces - it is a free choice.
So, what would be the point of these stamps?
My view is that they would give out very confusing messages - both nationally and internationally. They may even be perceived by some as incitement.

My OH has served in Iraq twice, Joy, I dont think I'd have been happy for his picture to have been on a stamp if he hadnt come back.


Caz xxx

i think our soldiers deserve

respect both dead and alive

While this discussion was interesting - I am horrified at what it has turned into.

Some people have lost freinds and family in Iraq so recently they are not even buried yet and this thread becomes and Ego trip for posters.

Well thank you very much not. I certainly will not continue to read it let alone post on it.

Errol, what are you on today??

I did not mention NATIONAL SERVICE.

In fact. who did ?

Deanna X

Errol the origional thread did not mention the words celebrate or defend so be a good chap and stop trying to wind people up ( which you are very good at )


Twizzle :-)))))