Posted on 05/26/2013 2:19:18 PM PDT by naturalman1975
Lee Rigby will be handed a posthumous tribute normally reserved only for soldiers killed on active duty, it was reported today.
The 25-year-old British soldier, who was hacked to death on Wednesday afternoon in Woolwich, south-east London, will have his name carved onto the stone walls of the Armed Forces Memorial.
Defence secretary Philip Hammond and military chiefs have decided that Drummer Rigby should be remembered on the roll of honour at the National Memorial Arboretum near Lichfield, Staffordshire.
‘It is only right that Drummer Rigby should be accorded the same recognition as those who have fallen in the line of duty,’ a senior defence source told The Sunday Times.
The memorial already holds the names of the 11 soldiers killed by the 1982 IRA bombings in Hyde Park and Regent’s Park in central London.
Also remembered on it are the two off-duty soldiers who were fatally shot four years ago outside Massereene Barracks in Antrim, Northern Ireland.
The decision to commemorate Drummer Rigby on the 140ft-diameter memorial comes because he was killed in a terrorist attack, reported the newspaper.
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“A travesty the Ft Hood victims and their families do not get the same respect”
absolutely! wonder who might be able to get a successful petition up to do something similar for these victims of terrorism?
(((Ping)))
Great tribute.
Good call UK.
I’d like to think that under Bush they would have, although I am not certain. He cared about our military more than Obama (well, my cat cares more than Obama) but he was a little squeamish about offending Islam.
Meanwhile UK will allow itself to still be flooded by Muslims, the worst possible immigrants. This very proper burial will not change the fact that the UK is in Eloi mode and invites Morlocks to settle in their land. Not all UK Muslims are Morlocks but the nice Muslims give birth to Jihadist children because (many of) their children grow up learning to resent and hate The English natives
Life in solitary confinement works for me in the absence of the death penalty. Three bland meals a day. Same meals every single day. NO contact with other humans. The prison guards don’t even say a word to them, ever. No books, no radio, no tv, no internet. Oh, ok let them have their koran. But that’s it, completely, totally it.
He DID die in action whether or not his stupid masters understand it or not.
Yes, very good.
And yet Obama calls the Fort Hood terrorist attack a “workplace violence Incident.”
Why not, he was basically on foreign soil.
Good!
GOD bless him and his Family.
Actuallly, he DID die in action. He was killed in the war on terrorism by two terrorists.
..........why? (give em a Koran)
Oh, dear, won’t the scuzzlims in Britain be offended? (I sincerely hope so.)
I think there’s some requirement that they be given religious reading material. So keep it to the Koran. They will spend the rest of their lives bitter that they can’t carry out any more jihad.
My thought too - also recognize such attacks as acts of war. How is it that the long-term socialist nations are beginning to have more sense than us in a growing number of areas? Not a trick question - the list is long.
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