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We're a very tight knit crew
Sqdn Ldr Mathew Stannard -
I look back now and think, how on earth could I have done it?
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They’d post men with guns on the door to stop us leaving.
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That night was the first time I went home and cried.
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It prompted the need to offer mental or physical assistance to a lot of veterans who were trawling back very traumatic memories.
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We’ve never been able to unite and discuss what we went through, ever.
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We've nothing to be ashamed of anymore.
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You can be charged for not saluting, or charged for not shooting.
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Someone, somewhere felt that if you were of a gay persuasion you would be open to blackmail.
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You were aware that you were policing it, that it was against the law.
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You didn’t have a sweaty smell, you had a feul-ly smelly.
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And I walked away from the chinook. And that was it. I hold that quite dear in my heart.