Help for heroes

[fenton]

Think this is the right section to put this in.

My dad is doing the Big Battlefield Bike Ride in 2010 trying to raise money for help for heroes. 350 miles on a mountain bike in 5 days during the last week of May 2010. Meeting at HMS Victory
then heading to France. 350 miles through France & finish in Paris. He needs to raise £2,200 MINIMUM for the Help for Heroes charity. Any
donations are greatfully received. If you do want to donate then you can do so via this link -----> https://www.bmycharity.com/V2/event.aspx?e=c2b7e571-c0ee-4d48-b990-8c1c53fc5c0f <-----

More info at
https://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/bbbr_2010.html

Cheers
Fenton
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[Catalyst]

Just raised £300 for them myself by doing a run

Will put a tenner in when i get back home tonight .
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[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

Nice 1 Fentons Dad
My mate raised £1,719.00 during his coastline trip earlier this year.

[fenton]

Theres always so many people that want to do the ride, but limited places. So they set you a target to achieve and stuff aparantly.


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[fenton]

Just wanted to bump this as its getting close. Any donations welcome. Its a top charity doing some really good work. help em out
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[chris-red]

A worthy cause IMO, I donated
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[CptBlack]

Just donated - can't afford much but every little helps!

C

[Clanger]

Brilliant cause, I would like to hope that we (the UK) could raise as much for the Heroes as we did for Haiti.
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[Ste]

[CptBlack]

[Ste]

So anyone in the army is automatically a hero?

[CptBlack]

[Ste]

Why? Surely heroic means they've done something amazingly good that is more than what would be expected of them?

Getting injured whilst thousands of innocent civilians die doesn't sound very heroic to me.

[Catalyst]

[CptBlack]

You think they chose to get injured or they chose to let thousands of civilians die? If they had made that choice then I'd agree with you.

The only choice they made was to serve Queen and Country and to give up their lives if necessary - that's what makes them heroes in my eyes.

[Ste]

[Catalyst]

[chris-red]

Piss off Ste, not the time or the place.
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[Ste]

[Vin]

I have great sympathy for the injured soldiers in Iraq/Afghanistan because they/we have been sold a lie.

[chris-red]

[Tarmacsurfer]

[smegballs]

I think Ste has a good point.

If it was "Help for Veterans" or etc etc then I would take no issue and support it as a worthwhile cause.

However, "Help for Heroes" is a outward symptom of the general mindlessness that is rife nowadays. Automatically assigning hero status to troops is something that I find disgusting. Not least because it devalues the "hero" status given to those (including soldiers) who earn hero status through heroic acts.

There is no conscription, soldiering is a personal choice these days. To be a hero you need to do heroic acts, not join HM forces.

Cause is good, how it presents itself is bad.

[Ste]