We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/shame_shame_on.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:41:27 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification A land fit for heroes [Mark Steyn] As Britain's returning "heroes" are selling their stories for six-figure sums (in dollars), here's one who can't get a look-in: Private Johnson Beharry's courage in rescuing an ambushed foot patrol then, in a second act, saving his vehicle's crew despite his own terrible injuries earned him a Victoria Cross. For the BBC, however, his story is "too positive" about the conflict. The corporation has cancelled the commission for a 90-minute drama about Britain's youngest surviving Victoria Cross hero because it feared it would alienate members of the audience opposed to the war... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/shame_shame_on.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/shame_shame_on.html Mon, 09 Apr 2007 08:35:32 -0600 Well, his story won't "alienate" us, so who is going to go over and make a documentary or movie about this guy and sell it to the American public? Where are the independent movie makers on this stuff? Didn't they get it when Frank Miller's 300 kicked butt? People like heroes. Real ones, too. Not just people in costumes. They are so killing themselves at the box office. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/shame_shame_on.html#comment-58705 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/shame_shame_on.html#comment-58705 Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:32:54 -0600 Clear evidence of the civilizational rot infecting us all in the West: We can't exalt our brave and courageous military heros because: 1) of fear of alienating .... ourselves and unassimilating Islamic immigrants in our midst; and 2) it would be too "positive". WTF ??!!!**@@ http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/shame_shame_on.html#comment-58688 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/shame_shame_on.html#comment-58688 Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:04:36 -0600 this out. Britain bans military sales of stories: The new ban will not affect any of the 15 service members held captive in Iran who already given accounts,[SIC]]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/shame_shame_on.html#comment-58684 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/shame_shame_on.html#comment-58684 Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:15:00 -0600 No good deed goes unpunished... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/shame_shame_on.html#comment-58683 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/shame_shame_on.html#comment-58683 Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:07:23 -0600 This is upsetting especially in light of the $250,000eing paid to leading Seaman Faye Turney for her story. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/shame_shame_on.html#comment-58679 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/04/shame_shame_on.html#comment-58679 Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:45:38 -0600