Blue Star Chronicles

Shame on the British Women who did this ….

Injured soldiers who lost their limbs fighting for their country have been driven from a swimming pool training session by jeering members of the public.

The men, injured during tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, were taking part in a rehabilitation session at a leisure centre, when two women demanded they be removed from the pool. They claimed that the soldiers “hadn’t paid” and might scare the children.

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The unpleasant scenes broke out at Leatherhead Leisure Centre in Surrey when the wounded veterans, who are at Headley Court Military Hospital, had to use the 25-metre public pool because the hydro-pool at the defence rehabilitation centre is not big enough for swimming.

The servicemen were about to begin their weekly swimming therapy in closed-off lanes when they were verbally abused by the swimmers.

One woman in her 30s was said to be infuriated by the lane closures saying the soldiers did not deserve to be there when she had paid.

It was also reported that others complained that limbless servicemen were scaring children at the centre.

The atmosphere was said to be so tense that the soldiers’ instructors removed them.

Charles Murrin, 79, a Navy veteran who saw the incident, said: “The woman said the men do not deserve to be in there and that she pays to come in the pool and they don’t. I spoke to the instructor in the changing room afterwards and he was livid.”

The general British public is outraged at the selfish obnoxious behavior of these women …

The incident has sparked widespread condemnation. Adml Lord Boyce, a former head of the Armed Forces, said last night the women should be “named and shamed”.

“These people are beneath contempt and everything should be done to get their names and publish them in the press,” he said. “It is contemptible that people who have given up their limbs for their country should be so abused when they are trying to get fit again.”

It comes after calls for the public to do more to welcome home troops back from tours of duty and to recognise the bravery of those fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I agree, they SHOULD be named and shamed. Apparently, this same neighborhood has acted with no class before by objecting that a home in the area be converted into a hostel for families of injured soldiers’ so that they could stay nearby while their loved one is recuperating at Headley Court.

These people should be shamed. Their sanctimonious objections to having to see injured soldiers is outrageous. They should be grateful to these soldiers and tell their children to honor them, not to fear them. These are the men that have paid an enormous price so that these ridiculous women can spend leisure time in a pool rather than in a burka.

These soldiers have certainly paid for the right to swim in a pool. The women have only opened up a checkbook and their fees are embarrassingly minuscule in relation to what the soldiers have paid. They’ve paid a price these ridiculous silly women will never comprehend.

h/t: Rhymes with Right