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Originally Posted by Wise1 See thats the kind of thing I would do when you buy someones medals, good on you Paul, wish more people would realise that the person that won them is out there and deserves a little of your time (where you have the chance) to pay just a little respect to them. |
Yes Lee - I don't really 'collect' medals but I wanted to have an example of a Normandy casualty for lectures, school talks, battlefield tours etc.
Scattered all over the globe are many graves like this which I see as 'mine' - men whose lives and death I know through research and/or reading. This trip, for example, I will visit Brigadier Hargest's grave at Hottot for the umptieth time. I have now also seen his son's grave at Cassino, and regularly visit his brother's grave not far from my house on the Somme. It's important we do these things, and remember these men.