Posted on 10/10/2010 2:56:06 PM PDT by Kukai
MEET Scotland's latest pin-up boy Paul Findlay - a 6ft hunk with a great line in patter and the heart of a lion.
Hero Paul, who lost his leg after being injured on an Afghanistan battlefield, is the face of a fundraising drive by war veterans' charity Erskine.
Surgeons battled for nine months to save his leg before he took the agonising decision to have it amputated.
But as he faced the cameras last week to film the charity appeal, Paul, 25, admitted: "This is scarier than anything I did in the Army. It's really difficult to be natural and pretend they're not there when this cameraman is zooming up and down on the train tracks."
While the make-up girl made lastminute adjustments, Paul added: "Let's just hope my mates don't find out about this."
When the ad goes out and the posters go up, they will remind the Scottish public of the daily sacrifices made in their name by the bravest of the brave.
But for Paul, a corporal in 19 Light Brigade, it will mark a milestone in his 17-month journey, which began the moment his patrol vehicle was blasted by a bomb on May 22, 2009.
Paul, from Stepps, near Glasgow, had been chosen to be part of an elite reconnaissance unit taking over from the marines and sweeping forward before the main army in Helmand, as Operation Panther's Claw was launched.
It was a huge honour for the young corporal who had already served three tours in Iraq and come home without a scratch.
Nine weeks into his first tour of duty in Afghanistan, all hell broke loose....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailyrecord.co.uk ...
>Erskine Print, Erskine Furniture, a conference and training centre, Vanishing Willows cafe and the Erskine gardening centre.
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That veteran organization is doing it’s best to be self-independent in order to take care of it’s vets.
Man, What a Hero!
Alba gu Bra !!! Scotland Forever!
Brave Scot ping.
>>6ft hunk<<
This thread is useless without pictures.
Hey, we chicks can say it too.
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