Service Families

The Knock on the Door

 

The dread of that knock on their door for all service families, with an Officer in uniform speaking words they can hardly take in.

This is what is happening all the time, and we have politician saying that thy

Have put all the money in excess, I have always understood that when we are on active service, the money and procurement have been assess, as to the conditions that will have to be met.

Yes we know that there will be a percentage of casualties from a conflict, but, the picture that is being sent back belies what is going on.

Why is there not a big push from Pakistan to stop the supply of bomb making materials getting through and their army going forward to meet the other armies in a pincher attack, or am I out of date that is how I would see this operation.

To read the news paper, these families must wonder what equipment they have to work with, when the vehicles have been rejected by the USA forces, why are they good enough for our service men and women!.

Does all this news fill them with dread; they would not be human if it did not.

We hear about the dead, but why is there silence about the number of casualties that have been injured and sent home, and as I have said before why do service personal have to go out and get money so that they can receive care, all the talk of money, this government can bail out the banks, but what do they do for the returning sick and injured both in body and mind. They keep this very quite why?

Is this the time to bring in conscription, just think of all those men who run round knifing and shooting people, I think we might find that there would be a mass exit from this country?

I can just hear it now "I know my human rights" you can not make me,

Just think about it, we would save on benefits, housing, and many more.

All those who shouted abuse at the troops, would they disappear.

I am just an old cynic, who hates to see people who have not put a penny into the system, but are very quick to take out,

 

I will go in detail on the subject of affordable housing in another time.

 

Why did I not write up my blog last Sunday well I was in France taking part in the Twinning of Kingsteignton and Orbec. Thirty years

The people of Orbec really looked after us, and what a programme they put on, my feet did not touch the floor, and I'm in need of a holiday to get over it.

One interesting thing was the push of the EU, they had had a grant to build a facility for the community to use plus playing fields for sports and tennis courts, and I come back and look at this concrete jungle of a Town, and think why do we not have this, plus looking at a farm which had been paid for by the EU grants and a works which made baby washing stands for nurseries and hospitals, that also received money.

Their roads are usable not like ours, with very big pot holes and vegetation growing out of the missing road surface.

Yes I know France is bigger then here, why have we not received money like that, or has money been got for other places too make this government look good!

This is Devon but we are missing the space, what little we have will have concrete poured on it , that means housing, but I ask myself who for?