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To: Wil H

Yeah .......right. Sure he earned all that. Keep telling yerself such.


20 posted on 06/06/2009 9:12:05 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: Squantos

Yes, he did.

I’m a former protocol officer of the Royal Australian Navy. I know the requirements to wear particular decorations in British and Commonwealth forces - he has qualifying service for all the decorations he is wearing in that photo.

Some of them are pretty easy to qualify for - which means tens of thousands (in some cases hundreds of thousands) of other people got them in the same way he did, but he did the same to earn them as anyone else.

The Prince does have a whole bunch of medals he’s got simply for being a Prince and he does wear them on occasions where protocol requires them - but he’s not wearing them in Normandy because he chooses not to wear unearned decorations at ceremonies honouring veterans.

He only wears the ones he has earned under Queen’s Regulations.

The Golden Jubilee Medal for example was awarded to all British servicemen present at the Queen’s Golden Jubilee celebrations (which he was) with at least five years military service (he has five years and four months I believe). Something like 120,000 of them were awarded.


24 posted on 06/06/2009 9:24:39 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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