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BuffaloJack
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 11:33 am    Post subject: Brave and Valient Brit Reply with quote
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http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007340869,00.html

Salute to Jaffa: Hero of ambush
COMRADES of a hero Queen’s guard said last night he “died like a man” while saving them from a Taliban onslaught in the Afghan badlands.

Guardsman David Atherton, 25, leapt from cover to launch two Javelin anti-tank missiles into a machine gun nest and building.

But by doing so he exposed his position to other fanatical fighters, who shot him dead.
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http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007340869,00.html


Hand salute!
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 2:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Godspeed to David Atherton...and to all his comrades-in-arms...on the point, at last and inevitably, against this scourge of islamofascism.
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