Sir Bob calls for extra housing for former soldiers (From Essex County Standard)

• "Point 1: We must assume that the majority of the recruits know what they are signing to. If not, the assessors at the recruiting offices have to be held negligent, which I don't think is true.
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  Point 2: Point 1 means that they are aware that if there is a war or conflict of any kind, they could be seriously dead or injured. It is part of being a fighting/defence force. Not that we aren't grateful, but hey, you should have read the not so small print, boys. That includes the bit about the wages!
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  Point 3: There is a good remark above about what happened to servicemen from previous conflicts. So many of the veterans are now dying, very old and helpless, and who gives a **** about them? Only their families and loved ones. They are cruelly treated at times, and there is nobody to champion them and their families. They had to go, no voluntary side to their service, although many I know went before they were called. For this they got a pittance, did as they were told, and were proud to serve. It is amazing that few of them suffered ptsd or whatever it is now termed. If they did turn out a bit gruff or antisocial post-war, it was put down to "what they've been through" and they had to get on with life, albeit with some sympathy for those who knew about them.
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  Some of the worst treated even felt sorry for their abusers, as in the cases I knew of ex-Jap prisoners who had been starved and driven to extremes, coming home as living skeletons. Those I knew gloried in their "second life" and gave thanks for the chance denied to so many.
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  It's not that we're ungrateful, we do need to be free from fear of oppression by other nations and creeds which are not our choice, but do give a breathing space to the rest of the population and their problems.
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  Give precedence and rewards to the returning serviceman of today, and the same should be available, readily and without question, to those of yesteryear,
  but you'll find most of those still able to protest, would say no thank you, we will soldier on as we have always done, just allow us a bit of respect from time to time."
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