If it’s Wednesday and you happen to be in Cornwall, then it must be in Flambards!
For the uninitiated, Flambards is sort of museum cum theme park featuring exhibits from all the passed World Wars, Falklands conflict and the current crisis in the Gulf. But, it also houses various rides of varying scariness.
Whilst sitting having an absolutely tasteless and totally overpriced burger, I managed to catch some garbled message that a Falklands Hero was on site and would be signing copies of his latest book.
Having experienced close friends going off to the said conflict and experiencing the catastrophe that Maggie Thatcher created at first hand, there was only one name that is synonymous with the Falklands debacle, and that was of one Simon Weston. I won’t prattle on about how he got his horrific injuries on the Sir Galahad when it got bombed, how the 49% burns left him unrecognisable or even how he needed over 75 major operations, but I will only celebrate and applaud his heroic attitude of ‘let’s get on with it’ that he needed when 22 of his 30 comrades in his platoon died in that explosion.
Simon, it was a pleasure to meet and talk with you and I hope more people in this world could have the same attitude as yourself….it would be a better place.
For the uninitiated, Flambards is sort of museum cum theme park featuring exhibits from all the passed World Wars, Falklands conflict and the current crisis in the Gulf. But, it also houses various rides of varying scariness.
Whilst sitting having an absolutely tasteless and totally overpriced burger, I managed to catch some garbled message that a Falklands Hero was on site and would be signing copies of his latest book.
Having experienced close friends going off to the said conflict and experiencing the catastrophe that Maggie Thatcher created at first hand, there was only one name that is synonymous with the Falklands debacle, and that was of one Simon Weston. I won’t prattle on about how he got his horrific injuries on the Sir Galahad when it got bombed, how the 49% burns left him unrecognisable or even how he needed over 75 major operations, but I will only celebrate and applaud his heroic attitude of ‘let’s get on with it’ that he needed when 22 of his 30 comrades in his platoon died in that explosion.
Simon, it was a pleasure to meet and talk with you and I hope more people in this world could have the same attitude as yourself….it would be a better place.
Pete
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