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Oh...I'm getting a medal
Posted: 30 Jun 2011, 09:20
by VEGAS
Re: Oh...I'm getting a medal
Posted: 30 Jun 2011, 09:53
by delticbob
Very nice
Who's paying for it, and where's mine? I've been around over half a century, diligently paid my taxes & supported the various governments....and been within 20 feet of meeting the Queen (in 1975!!).
I deserve a medel....as do firemen, ambulence workers, refuse collectors, teachers, powerstation workers, (a nod to my dad, who at least DID receive proper medels & citations), and the grand folk on here
where's our medel.
Bob
Re: Oh...I'm getting a medal
Posted: 30 Jun 2011, 10:39
by Garry Russell
The truth is..
All the people of the nation make it what it is
Anyway...have a medal Mutley
Re: Oh...I'm getting a medal
Posted: 30 Jun 2011, 11:08
by Tonks
Oh great... and it'll cost me another £50 to get my medals re-done and uniforms sorted. They're not really "free".
Re: Oh...I'm getting a medal
Posted: 30 Jun 2011, 11:10
by Garry Russell
Re: Oh...I'm getting a medal
Posted: 30 Jun 2011, 12:32
by FlyTexas
Tonks wrote:Oh great... and it'll cost me another £50 to get my medals re-done and uniforms sorted. They're not really "free".
If you don't want it maybe I can make you an offer.
It would look nice sitting along side my Prince Harry and Kate Middleton mug.
But seriously, that's a nice looking medal.
Brian
Re: Oh...I'm getting a medal
Posted: 30 Jun 2011, 12:33
by ukmil
Tonks wrote:Oh great... and it'll cost me another £50 to get my medals re-done and uniforms sorted. They're not really "free".
should have been an enlisted man then, I get mine done completely FREE
Re: Oh...I'm getting a medal
Posted: 30 Jun 2011, 12:37
by PaulC
I'll be getting one of these and think it's rather a nice gesture. I'll be quite proud of it, if people are going down the "who's paying for it" line, I pay my tax too so rest assured, I'm paying for my own medal!!
Re: Oh...I'm getting a medal
Posted: 30 Jun 2011, 12:46
by Garry Russell
Indeed you are..but others are paying and not getting a medal.
Re: Oh...I'm getting a medal
Posted: 30 Jun 2011, 18:01
by Trev Clark
When the Silver Jubilee medal was handed out, each squadron at Odiham was given only two, the CO had one
, the other was given to the SAC ops clerk! That was in the days when we had money (ish) and hardly anyone had a medal at all, unless they were very old (like M Pilot Taff Walker, who had a full WW2 set!) or (like everyone EXCEPT the ops clerk) had the GSM (N.I.), which
one day I will polish up and wear on a remembrance day parade
Funny how money can be found for the little things in life