It is really nice to know that recognition and specialist rehabilitation is being given to injured servicemen who are coming back from war injured and maimed. Headley Court has been built on funds raised from the public who have really got behind supporting Help for Heroes, and its founders.
Just ordinary people helping ordinary men and women doing their job.
Extract from the speech pf Prince William on opening of Headley Court .....
“Very occasionally – perhaps once or twice in a generation – something or someone pops up to change the entire landscape. Help 4 Heroes, under the magnificent and brilliantly quirky leadership of the mad cartoonist, Bryn, and his equally inspirational wife, Emma, is one such phenomenon. What it has achieved here at Headley Court is, in truth, but the tip of the iceberg. Help for Heroes has galvanised the entire British people. Always supportive of its men and women in uniform, this Country has been elevated by Help for Heroes to a state of realisation and proactive support for our military that has made me, personally, very, very proud to be British, and a member of our Armed Forces.”
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The message from H4H website.
The message is simple: H4H does not seek to criticise or be political, we simply want to help and to do so by asking everyone to do their bit to raise money. Once that money is raised, we go to the experts in the Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force for guidance as to how best to spend it. It is our intention to spend all we raise on the practical, direct support of those wounded in the service of our country since 9/11.
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My own view is that we should help our servicemen. But how much longer must we see them bought home in coffins each week, or maimed for life. If this war is about defending our country, it makes sense of sacrifice, and courage. If there is another agenda. Shame on those sending our troops. The support for H4H from the ordinary britsh man and women on the streets of Britain is what makes Britain decent, and testifies that the spirit of goodness still reigns. Its times when I see the ordinary men and women doing whats right, that I know true decency has not been extinguished.
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