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Topic: I have killed: Prince Harry reveals
he´s ´taken a life to save a life´ on
the Afghan front line as he flies
home from second tour of duty |
I have killed: Prince Harry reveals
he´s ´taken a life to save a life´ on
the Afghan front line as he flies
home from second tour of duty
Daily Mail [UK], by Rebecca English, Harriet Arkell
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Posted By:Attercliffe, 1/21/2013 11:45:05 PM
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| Prince Harry flew out of Afghanistan tonight and admitted he had killed for the first time. Thoughtful but unrepentant, he said soldiers sometimes had to ‘take a life to save a life’. In an interview to mark the end of his four-month tour of duty as an Apache attack helicopter pilot, the third in line to the throne confirmed he had been directly responsible for the deaths of one or more insurgents as a co-pilot gunner. Asked if he had killed from the cockpit of his £40million aircraft, the 28-year-old prince said matter-of-factly: ‘Yeah, so lots of people have.
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Comments:
He looks a bit older.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 1/22/2013 12:11:23 AM (No. 9131480)
Too much personal information for the enemy.
In a real war somebody wins, somebody loses. Somebody dies, somebody goes home.
Then there is Zippy´s PC war.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
TXknitter, 1/22/2013 1:07:00 AM (No. 9131500)
My more conservative than most Brits SIL laughs at this article. Gun-bashing neighbors of hers criticize photos of American soldiers in action yet they all swoon if Prince Harry poses with his gun! Just weird. Imagine the journalist expected him to be sorry he killed the enemy.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
PChristopher, 1/22/2013 5:27:29 AM (No. 9131608)
My father, a veteran of WW2, would never talk about that. When I asked one time, he kind of shuffled his feet, looked at the floor and said "You did what you had to do"´ and that was that.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bighambone, 1/22/2013 6:56:48 AM (No. 9131674)
What Harry said was true, as an Apache attack helicopter crewman his job was to kill the enemy whenever the enemy made his presence known. That´s what Apache attack helicopter crews do. Since Harry did his duty as an Apache helicopter crewman in Afghanistan, the UK media should be careful singling him out as a killer of the enemy to sell newspapers. It is said that Harry at times escorted American Blackhawk helicopters on missions to extract wounded troops from the battlefield, no doubt some of those wounded troops are Americans, and by killing the enemy, Harry most likely helped save the lives of those wounded troops by keeping their med-evac. helicopters from being shot down by the enemy, has Harry said, sometimes you have to take a life to save a life on the battlefield.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
thelmalou, 1/22/2013 7:19:47 AM (No. 9131690)
I love this kid.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DaveFromTampa, 1/22/2013 8:28:30 AM (No. 9131808)
Just think of this. Actual British Royalty live less like royalty than our own President and his family.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Attercliffe, 1/22/2013 8:35:24 AM (No. 9131817)
And cost a lot less too, #6!
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