Quote Originally Posted by andy222 View Post
The Prime Minister said: “When you hear how events unfolded and the intensity of enemy fire, it is difficult to imagine how one wouldn't be frozen to the spot and yet L/Cpl Leakey risked his life to run across that barren hillside not just once, but multiple times, to turn the battle and save the lives of comrades.

“And that is why he deserves the highest honour for bravery the nation can give.”
What does he know about it? The closest he has been to a war is in the House of Commons and he is losing that one.

There were/are a lot of brave people out there. Not all put forward though. Some would argue that he was just doing his job and what he had been trained for.
He probably knows about as much as the rest of us, but described quite eloquently what most of us think.
Let's for once keep this thread on topic and not turn it into a political slanging match