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To: archy
My favorite Forsyth short was in his No Comebacks collection, titled "Money With Menaces."
28 posted on 04/08/2003 10:21:33 AM PDT by Poohbah (Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!)
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To: Poohbah
My favorite Forsyth short was in his No Comebacks collection, titled "Money With Menaces."

Check out The Veteran, it'll very much remind you of No Comebacks.

You at all familiar with the minor action involving the SAS at Mirbat in the Oman in 1972, involving in particular a Fijian SAS trooper named Sgt. Talaiasi Labalaba? He makes an appearance.

In the opinion of a good many folks aware of what happened at that place on 19 July 1972, Labalaba deserved no less than a V.C.

Th word is that a couple might be announced for the actions of a couple of SASmen for recent activities in Afghanistan, and that might be a particularly fitting time for such an award to be made. It's been an odd sort of SAS tradition that they never really needed a V.C. awarded to their lot, as they knew best what the others who hadn't beaten the clock had been about.

-archy-/-


32 posted on 04/08/2003 2:55:14 PM PDT by archy (Keep in mind that the milk of human kindness comes from a beast that is both cannibal and a vampire.)
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