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To: LindyBill who wrote (163366)	4/11/2006 4:16:10 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794009

<You have a couple of Academics that need a switch taken to them. > Not really Lindy. They quite rightly point out that there are rules of engagement and are simply expressing the fair play nature of Kiwis, keeping Hulme's exploits in perspective. Another Victoria Cross winner [twice], Charles Upham, won his in more traditional ways by confronting enemy soldiers more directly with great courage. nzedge.com I'm usually cynical about such awards as most acts of courage go unrecognized and it's usually Big Noters patting each other and their buddies on the back and acting politically for show [though I have no idea what the situations were in either Upham's or Hulme's cases]. It's fair enough to understand just what went on on Crete. Part of making up, which is what old enemies in Germany and New Zealand have been doing for decades, is to recognize such things in discussion with the relatives of the dead and maybe apologize where one could say such "perfidy" was "poor form old chap", while recognizing the exigencies of the desperate times. Mqurice