On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 09:41:29 +0100, "Keith Willshaw"
wrote:

Agree about the respect due to those people. Back in 1969 I was
stuck in hospital for a while and in the next bed was an ex merchant
seaman who had been on that run in WW2. He woke up several
times screaming with nightmares about that time. It seems he
had two ships torpedoed under him during the war but hey he
wasnt even a combatant by some people's standards not being in
the armed forces.

????

IIRC, they were only paid up to the minute the ship they were on was
sunk. In effect, they got financially penalised for being torpedoed
and surviving. Unbelievable.

Gavin Bailey

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"...this level of misinformation suggests some Americans may be
avoiding having an experience of cognitive dissonance."
- 'Poll shows errors in beliefs on Iraq, 9/11'
The Charlotte Observer, 20th June 2003