Wounded Iraq veterans driven out of public pool when told they might scare children
Soldiers who suffered appalling injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan were verbally abused as they swam in a public swimming pool.
During a weekly rehabilitation class at a council leisure centre, 15 servicemen – including several who have lost limbs or suffered severe burns – were heckled and jeered by members of the public.
One woman was so incensed that the troops were using the pool at Leatherhead Leisure Centre in Surrey that she told them they did not deserve to be there.
She became increasingly abusive, screaming that it was wrong for staff to rope off a lane exclusively for the injured personnel from the nearby Headley Court rehabilitation centre.
The swimmer, thought to be in her 30s, is understood to have said: “I pay to come here and swim – you lot don’t.”
The abuse was witnessed by 79-year-old Korean War veteran Charles Murrin, who said yesterday: “I could not believe what she was saying.
“The lane was roped off, which they do every week. It wasn’t as if the pool was completely closed. Her group had the rest of the pool to swim in. Continue.
Oh they have paid alright. They have defended the nation, put their lives on the line and given narrow minded New Labour voters like her the right to bitch about how she wants all the pool.
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I was reading about how Gordon Brown wants the military to compete for its funding. They should just disband the army, kick them all out, turn all the guns into ploughs and when that stupid whining cow is busy ploughing the fields of those who didn't, her dumbass might regret her disgusting self.
True way its going a few years from now we won't have an army.
Australia will be heading the same way...
I linked this post, among others, to my blog. You're not such a lone voice...you're just perhaps softer than those lefties. Pleased to join you; welcome to my blogroll.
Cheers Hannah, whats your site & I shall return a link...
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