https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/18...ar-medal-probe
Top Police man wears a Falkland medal , but he was only 15 when the conflict started.
If you have earned a medal you have a right to wear it.
I once asked my Dad if could take his medals to school , as the teacher asked all the pupils to show them and talk about them.
My Dad said as soon as got home from the war he put them all in the dustbin . They reminded him of death, his army mates who was killed and the Germans who he killed.
Dad only spoke about the war, a couple years before he died after having a stroke .
I remember having a pint with him in his social club and one of the old gents always wore a blazer with his medals (or was they his)
He was always telling war story's, you would have thought he was special forces.
Dad said to me quietly , he has never seen any action never mind been in it. If he had you don't talk about , unless maybe to other veteran's. turned out he had never left the shores and had served his war time in the store's
Many years after i was having a drink with old vet and told him what had said and bottling up all the horrors, then I looked at this old chap and there was tears rolling down his cheeks.
He said he had never told a sole and regretted not telling his late wife. He was like my Dad who used wake up with the nightmares , they call it Post dramatic stress now.
Well anyone he told us , that his officer had ordered him to shoot 2 badly injured comrade's who only had less than hour to live from their injuries , so the Japs who they was retreating from wouldn't cut their necks.
In my opinion the officer should have done it.
If you have won your medals wear them with pride , if they are your dads cherish them if it was their wishes