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Final farewell to Last Tommy
Thursday 6th August 2009, 1:00PM BST.
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if the queen and prime minister were absent this will be seen as an affront to all those who gave and are giving their lives for our country. if these 2 cannot give up one day of their holiday to honour the last of the tommies then it is disgraceful
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RIP Harry you did us proud.
May the angels watch over you.
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The trouble with the PM turning up is it would have been seen as a political matter and before you know it the leader of the opposition etc would have been there to complete a tour de force of politicians.
Someone referred to him on the radio this morning as becoming a celebrity by way of default, I can somehow see that point of view, Harry Patch was a man who only came to the fore when the numbers of the veterans reached single figures. All those that took to arms in the Great War are in their own ways heroes, but let us not forget that there is still a Brit alive who faced the enemy during the conflict albeit at sea, just because he now lives in Oz does not mean that his contribution was any the less.
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Where was the Prime Minister?????? Nowhere – why does that surprise me?
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Where was the Queen?????? Nowhere – why does that surprise me? he was our last soldier of WW1 not impressed one bit.
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Capt Chaos,as per Normans comments above, he may have been the last soldier, he is not the last man in the forces linking this country to WW1
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