remember the squaddies this xmas

[zaphodbb]

We've bought his best friend home

A FALLEN hero?s family wept as the stray dog he adopted on the front line bounded into their arms yesterday ? after her rescue from Afghanistan.

Tears of joy filled the eyes of squaddie Conrad Lewis?s mum, dad and sister as they kept a promise they made to themselves after he was killed aged 22.

The brave Para and the stray mongrel he called "Peg" were inseparable ? with the mutt refusing to leave the private?s side even amid fierce gun battles with the Taliban.

Emotional dad Tony, 49, said as the family finally got to take Peg with them after six months in quarantine: "Conrad would be chuffed to bits to see his pal home.

"It was his final wish and we are delighted to have done this for him."

Conrad?s mum Sandi, 48, beamed: "Peg is coming into a very loving family."
Loyal

Last Christmas ? on his final visit to his family in Claverdon, Warwickshire ? Conrad told how he planned to bring home loyal Peg, named after the Pegasus flying horse emblem of the Paras.

But just weeks after returning to Helmand he died alongside Private Lewis Hendry, 20 ? the victim of a sniper.

His actions earned him a posthumous mention in dispatches for "unique bravery".

if your son, daughter, brother, sister, father, mother is serving, i just want to say i hope they are safe and have a merry xmas .. zap

[johnboy1974]

Nice post mate- Yes we should all spare a thought for all our armed forces at home and abroad when we celebrate christmas with our family this year.