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D-Day
No doubt most of you will have seen the story of D
Day veteran Bernard Jordan, who went AWOL from
his residential care home in Hove, to make his way to
France for the 70th anniversary of the D Day landings
in Normandy on June 6th.
A heartwarming story. It has been reported that staff at
Bernards’ care home had been unable to secure a place
for him on an official Royal British Legion trip. So the
89 year old donned his medals and simply disappeared
to board a coach to France.
The care home in question is said to be one of the best
in England. Residents are free to come and go as they
please. So how sad that Bernard felt he had to sneak out
of there without saying where he was going.
Even more sad that, when it was realised that there
wasn’t a Royal British Legion place available, the
home couldn’t have arranged for a member of staff
to accompany Bernard on his journey. Of course that
would have meant some expense and considerable staff
time. But surely the good publicity to be gained from
such a simple act of kindness and recognition would
have been worth it?
When you think about it though, the prospect of
complying with Health and Safety legislation, together
with ‘duty of care’ issues, may also have been a deterrent.
The kind of issues which would make it impossible for
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an operation like the D Day landings to ever happen
again. Not that we would want it to happen again of
course, or even need it in these times of modern warfare.
But let’s just imagine what would happen if.................
‘Sorry sir those landing craft can’t go across the Channel.
Their annual certificates of seaworthiness expire
tomorrow.’ - or ‘These food rations need to be consumed within two
days, they don’t include the minimum five a day, and
those corned beef tins are lethal.’
And of course - ‘Yes I know the enemy is gathering over
there ready to launch an attack, but the Met Office has
forecast a gale force 8 and advised all small boats to stay
in harbour sir.’
Fortunately for many of us people like Bernard just got
on with it.
Word of the week is ‘meretricious’ - meaning something
which appears attractive but has no real value. A strange
one this - because surely everything has some kind of
value? Something to ponder over your next Chang
perhaps.
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