‘Hello mum, this is going to be hard for you to read …’

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Cyrus Thatcher RIP

“Here Rifleman Cyrus Thatcher, who was 19 when he was killed by an explosion near Gereshk seven weeks ago, tells his own story, through letters home”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hello-mum-this-is-going-to-be-hard-for-you-to-read-1753008.html

GR Comment: “Two weeks after this young man was killed it was all over the papers that my own brother’s body had just been handed back murdered after being kept hostage in Iraq for two years. I know how his family feel. You don’t get over it. You get brave and pretend that you have come to terms with it after time. But it’s just to a lie protect yourself from falling apart. When you lose a member of your family in a war something dies forever and you don’t laugh or joke about things like you managed to do before. Lives are damaged forever. Yes even the friends and family. That is why we have to listen to jeremy corbyn and forget all the other halfwit warmongers in power. Thank you all for reading this.”

“My last conversation with him was an argument where we insulted each other because i thought he was extremely foolish to be going there.

No there is nothing to be proud of in watching anyone allow themselves to be conned into doing the bidding of rich psychopaths who put their own greed in front of other people’s lives.

Nobody is a hero in this game, there are just rich greedy cowards and others who are naive enough to do their dirty work.

To hell with their dirty wars! anyone who joins in with it is a mug!

i wanted a living brother alive and well whom i could have a laugh with, not a corpse six foot under!”

A bit of Redgum For Cyrus

Redgum – I Was Only 19 (1983)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urtiyp-G6jY

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