What makes him so special? I wo'nt dignify that with a reply.
Sorry but all this ""I signed up for queen and country"" in my opinion is over played....no doubt a handful may but for many im sure its seen as steady work/carrier and some saves going on the dole,lets face it you don't meet too many cannon fodder with degree"s now do you.
Work/worked with enough ex servicemen in my job and the doors too have been able to form an opinion.
So again i say what makes him special....should they have bowed and scraped and allowed him a room....NO they shouldn't as he"s no different from an accountant....a shelf stacker or a road sweeper as he"s chosen too do a JOB as they would have.
You're right they should not have treated him special but they treated him differently to anyone else by refusing him a room, you're missing the point slightly.....
And yes it is a 'job' or 'career' but I feel a great pride wearing my uniform and noone else will make me think otherwise. I am proud because of the people who have come before me, proud because of the men and women who stand beside me, proud for my soldiers who manage the impossible in awful conditions.
Come and see what my medics have to go through in Iraq and Afghan and you will see us in a different light.