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17 May 2005

I was reading the paper today about this family who were trying to get some recognition of the fact that their grandfather who was executed for "cowardice" in the first world war was in fact completely shell-shocked and should have been invalidded out. And they are told that there is no legal case! It really gets me so angry and upset - there was a huge injustice done to most (and probably) all of the soldiers executed for cowardice or desertion and it would cost nothing to pardon them now, yet nobody in authority is prepared to admit that a mistake was made nearly 100 years ago. Grrrrrr.