{"id":19893,"date":"2010-07-27T06:46:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T10:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19893"},"modified":"2010-07-27T10:26:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T14:26:30","slug":"valor-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19893","title":{"rendered":"Valor for sale"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MEW sent us this article from the Daily Mail<\/a> about a sister who sold her brother’s medals so she could take a Mediterranean cruise;<\/p>\n

The 37-year-old, who is unemployed, said: \u2018I\u2019m on income support and I\u2019m very hard up, so I did what I thought was best.\u2019<\/p>\n

Now the man who bought the mementos \u2013 which include medals from Corporal Deering\u2019s service in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as an International Security Assistance Force medal \u2013 has returned them to the hero\u2019s fiancee Gemma Polino.<\/p>\n

Corporal Deering, a Royal Marine with the Commando Logistic Regiment, died in December 2008 as he raced to help injured comrades whose armoured Viking personnel carrier had been blown up by insurgents.<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old was killed in a second explosion as he approached the vehicle in Afghanistan\u2019s notorious Helmand province. He left everything to his sister, who also claims she was forced to sell the mementos to help look after her 14-month-old son.<\/p>\n

Miss Deering, of Sheldon, Birmingham, said her brother would have wanted her to sell the medals to support herself and her son, who she named after him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ya know, if she’d stayed home and used the money for taking care of her son, I probably would have forgiven her – but to use the money for a cruise? It’s no wonder she’s a broke-ass single mother.<\/p>\n

Also here is a keeper.<\/p>\n

Then Miss Deering, in the presence of her mother Karen Waspe, offered him her brother\u2019s medals, uniform and the shell casing, one of three fired over his coffin<\/strong> at a memorial service held in Camp Bastion, Afghanistan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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