Having been told by a little bird, of a recent article in the Daily Mirror...I have submitted the following....somebody tell me if I make it into print?
Dear SIr,
With reference to your recent article "Medals for 50 quid". There is surely a delicious irony here?...On one hand we have soldiers discarding their decorations as 'worthless' because they represent the illegal actions of 'an oil greedy nation'...on the other hand the same government issuing those Iraq medals has decided to deny 35000 Malaya/Borneo veterans (all now in their 60's & 70's) the right to wear the medal that a grateful Malaysian nation has bestowed upon them.
I should add that the conflicts in which these veterans served represent the most successful defence against communist terrorism in all of South East Asia....they actually WON, unlike the Americans in Viet Nam...but now their nation would deny them the little bit of pride they might derive from wearing their Pingat Jasa Malaysia in a Remembrance Day parade.
I leave you to judge which of the two circumstances makes for the greater insult.
'Jock' Fenton
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...................'Jock'
Paroi...Rasah...Batu Signals Troop.