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38 swindonlink.com • August 2009
Veterans provide valuable lesson
GARAGE DOOR Pupils taking history GCSE at Greendown Community School were given an insight into the lives of

REPAIRS people who have experienced and endured conflict during Swindon’s armed forces week in early July.
It was the second time the school
had invited men and women who
had served in the armed forces with
the help of South Swindon MP Anne
Snelgrove.
The pupils heard first hand of
civilian life during the Blitz and
the flying bomb campaign, what
Fast Friendly Service it was like at the D-Day landings
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Gulf War.
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Pupil Pippa Yalden said she and
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tory. “You get a general picture in Veterans and pupils at Greendown with Anne Snelgrove MP, left
lessons and from studying books, for all pupils. “They showed such
Mobile but talking to the veterans gave bravery in the armed forces and as No problem too
us the details you can’t imagine. civilians to protect our freedoms in
small for councillor
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of living through World War II; it do now.”
• Servicing was terrifying sometimes, but they Michael Bray was concerned that the
also had a lot of fun.
• Repairs Chris Durrant said he was fas- article in the July Link reporting the
• Brakes cinated to see photographs and complaint by Grange Park resident
• Exhausts newspaper cuttings brought to Angela Drew about the organisa-
• M.O.T. school by the veterans. “I’m 15, but tion of the Radio 1 Big Weekend
at Lydiard Park implied that he and
• Free call out it’s incredible to meet Mr Ing who fellow councillors had not done their
• No VAT went ashore at D-Day and to hear job in keeping people informed of
• Engine him tell us that his best friend was the arrangements and possible
diagnostics shot in the head as they came off disruption.
the landing craft. They were just a
He wrote, ‘the whole of Grange
SlATER’S MOBilE SERVicES few years older than us.” Park was leafleted 10 days before
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ans’ visit was a moving experience
it would affect residents. Though
I was not named in the article I
would not want your readers to
have the impression that I did not
take my duties as a local councillor
Veterans honouring the fallen as the seriously. No problem is too small
repatriation cortege passed through or too big for me to deal with, and
Wootton Bassett on 14 July if I can’t provide the answer I know
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