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| "Meet my Mum and Dad. On their wedding day in 1953. My Dad fought for the Allies in the Second World War, he was hit by shrapnel at Nijmegan Bridge, Holland. Among other injuries his elbow was smashed to smithereens and he became a plastic surgery guinea pig. The specialist hospitals for war vets were closed as a cost cutting measure in the 1950's so when my Father became ill in 1969 and his Doctor diagnosed indigestion he accepted his verdict. When he died six days later my Mother discovered he had been prescribed the same indigestion tablets she'd been prescribed two year's earlier when she was pregnant with my sister. So began my Mother's search for answers. Eventually and after many months, the authorities agreed that my Dad had died prematurely because he had not received the specialist treatment, as a war vet he should have. My Mother's grief-stricken fears were proven to be correct. It is heart-breaking to know that like my Father many other loyal servants of the state are forgotten in their hour of need. Of one thing I'm sure, when the British stood alone against a Nazi World Order, the everlasting values of fairness and justice which are part of our character were worth fighting for, then as now. This has not changed. My Dad will have known, one thing the German people were at that time not able to do - vote." Mike TV |
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