[Brit_Guy]

Wow. The article perhaps still doesn't quite get over just how rare this award is. Think of all the conflicts we have been inolved in since 1982 and no-one has won one despite some extrordinary acts! Can't wait to read the full citation, pretty sure the account above will not be doing the man justice if this got through the award board....

[bad company]

Can't wait to read the full citation, pretty sure the account above will not be doing the man justice if this got through the award board....

If you get your hands on it, please post it here and ping me. Please please please.

[lentulusgracchus]

My granny in Yorkshire used to send me the English comics (Dan Dare, Hero the Spartan) occasionally, and I read quite a few VC stories from WW I and WW II "back in the day". Later on my aunt sent me a subscription to "This England", the magazine for expats, because it had articles about nice places in the country to visit, and she hoped I'd come over for a visit (I did, eventually), and that magazine had a VC citation story in every copy, some of them from as long ago as the last century. So I have a pretty good idea what it takes to merit a VC -- and yes, they're rare as hen's teeth, and IIRC there is usually a lifesaving aspect involved, and quite frequently self-sacrifice at a level often requiring posthumous citation.

[Route101]

...."Maybe I was brave, I don't know. I think anyone else could do the same thing," he said.......Buy you a beer anytime...God Bless.....

[Hatteras]

I just love this kind of stuff...