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Big_Spark
The press are banging on about Iraq, but they seem to have completely forgotten about Afghanistan..we have thousands of troops there, risking their lives for the Afghan people, yet when was the last time we saw a report of the casualties from that conflict?
Yesterday this was brought home to me when a friend who was a Royal Marine Commando was killed whilst on patrol. It appears that he triggered a land mine and died instantly..the only blessing.
The irony of Robs death is that it was a case of "friendly fire" in a way..you see the landmine he triggered was one laid by the British Army back in the 1920's during the Afghan War..we know this as another 32 were successfully recovered from the area surrounding it..
This damned mine laid in the ground for over 80 years, even though the ground was a farmers field now and ploughed frequently, and never went off..Rob apparently dropped his pack on top of it and they suspect this armed the mine, when he lifted it, the damned thing detonated.
Why are the press not reporting these deaths? Why are our Service men and woman fighting a conflict that many appear to have forgotten about, instead fixating on Iraq..
Yesterday this was brought home to me when a friend who was a Royal Marine Commando was killed whilst on patrol. It appears that he triggered a land mine and died instantly..the only blessing.
The irony of Robs death is that it was a case of "friendly fire" in a way..you see the landmine he triggered was one laid by the British Army back in the 1920's during the Afghan War..we know this as another 32 were successfully recovered from the area surrounding it..
This damned mine laid in the ground for over 80 years, even though the ground was a farmers field now and ploughed frequently, and never went off..Rob apparently dropped his pack on top of it and they suspect this armed the mine, when he lifted it, the damned thing detonated.
Why are the press not reporting these deaths? Why are our Service men and woman fighting a conflict that many appear to have forgotten about, instead fixating on Iraq..
