NOTE TO SELF: IRAQ SOLDIER MAKING PERSONAL STATEMENT OR...?
Not quite sure what to think regarding a soldier facing a court martial attempting to sell his Military Cross on eBay. He received the medal for heroism in Iraq and claims he needed money to help support himself once his stint with the army comes to an end. However military law forbids soldiers in military service to sell their medals. In his defence he claimed that he placed the medal and other items on sale to see what type of price they would get.
He won the Cross for single-handedly defeating a suicide bomber's ambush in Baghdad in 2005 in additon to other military-related items.
Don't bother seeking it out on eBay due to the outcry from those in charge and the medal et al has been withdrawn.
When you thinnk about it, how desperate could the soldier be to put a Military Cross for sale? Makes a person wonder whether it was a political anti-war statement or he desperately required money.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007230300,00.html
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