StanW wrote:
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Stan
Dunnit, Stan. I have posted the following to the newspaper:
"Why did that spokesman for the Foreign Office try and mislead you and your readers? Answer - because he cannot tell the truth about the PJM. To do so destroys their 'argument' for trying to stop British veterans from wearing their PJM. The fact is that most ex-servicemen and women who are eligible for the PJM do NOT have a British medal to wear. And they are being stopped from wearing their only medal, the PJM, on this year's Remembrance Day.
The Queen has said all other countries like Australia and New Zealand, those we fought with, can wear the medal with pride!
In this day and age, it beggars belief. It's all about mean-spirited double standards from an Imperialist past!
Will that same spokesman admit to another fact - that his Minister who made the PJM statement in Parliament which denied ordinary men and women the right to wear the medal (the Rt Hon Ian Pearson MP) has changed his mind and now says his decision was wrong and should be reversed – and he is lobbying for the PJM to be worn by men like Colin Timbrell. Good luck to Mr Timbrell– he should wear his medal. If he was not in Crown Service in January 2006, The Queen said he could wear his medal by dint of a decree in the London Gazette in 1968.
The full story is at www fight4thepjm org. "
and, referring to the support from the local RBL President:
"I would like to add that Mr Timbrell and everyone else should wear their PJM with honour on Remembrance Day.
At this year's Royal British Legion National Conference, the RBL unanimously adopted a resolution calling on the RBL to campaign for the PJM to be officially recognised as being a wearable medal. This story is also on www.fight4thepjm.org - the web site set up specifically to campaign for British veterans' right to wear their Malaysian medal."
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BarryF, who fought for the Right to Wear the Pingat Jasa Malaysia