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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

You normally have to be dead to earn the Victoria Cross. It’s generally a posthumous award to reward bravery to the death.

34 posted on 03/10/2008 7:20:41 PM PDT by FARS

Oops! We certainly don’t want that for this brave soldier then do we... Thanks for enlightening me on this! ;)

49 posted on 03/11/2008 4:29:18 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)

To: FARS; Virginia Ridgerunner

You normally have to be dead to earn the Victoria Cross. It’s generally a posthumous award to reward bravery to the death. Not always, but all too often. But the standards are VERY high.

There have been two V.C.s awarded during the ongoing British and former Commonwealth operations in Afghanistan, known as ORACLE and VERITAS. One survived the operation for which he was awarded Britain's highest honour, the other didn't.

Posthumous:Cpl Bryan James Budd Corporal Bryan Budd awarded the Victoria Cross

Willy Apiata, NZ SAS: New Zealand soldier awarded Victoria Cross

63 posted on 03/12/2008 7:43:08 AM PDT by archy (Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])

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