. ''The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war,no matter how justified,shall be directly proportional as to how they perceive the veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation'' --George Washington--
Saturday, 1 December 2007
Soldier's kitbag lost in 1942 is found in Egyptian desert
As dispatch rider Alex Ross travelled through the hostile Egyptian desert, deep behind enemy lines, his few mementos of home must have meant the world to him.
So his horror at realising the pannier containing them had fallen off his motorcycle during one of his dangerous missions can easily be imagined.
There the lost bag lay, covered by the shifting sands of the Western Desert ... until an astonishing discovery 65 years on. Read It Here
(RG) Squaddies ay, times might change but some things stay the same!
I was told while I was on the Pilgrimage to the Falklands this year that a Scots guard lost his wallet on Mount Tumbledown and when he returned he found it lying where he had dropped it 25 years ago, incredible.
© Mack (RG) The thoughts of a Falklands War Veteran.
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