When we
featured the link to the Save Our Soldiers web campaign last month we
got some quite good feedback from Killie fans who have friends and
relations in the forces at present, and indeed have had in the past. We
made it quite clear that our support was for the lads and lassies who
are out there at the sharp end serving their country with honour...and
nothing to do with any politics about if we should be in war zones or
not.
I often
meet Killie stalwart Denis Ingram at reserve games and once, strangely
enough, at the end of a very long pier in the tiny fishing village of
Mogon in Grand Canaria! More recently though I bumped into him outside
Love Street before our no score bore, and he told me that his son was a
huge Killie fan doing a stint in Afghanistan with his army regiment and
that he appreciated the support we were showing the troops.
I asked
Denis to send me some piccies and info and true to his word he emailed
them to me last week...so everyone...meet one of our own who is in the
middle of nowhere (we could tell you exactly but then we would have to
kill you) taking care of business...
Marc,
from Kilmaurs, is only 19 in November and while doomed is pretty chuffed
with himself (and so he should be) for setting up the Edinburgh Killie
Supporters Club, young Marc has had a somewhat tougher job persuading
the locals to join the Afghanistan one! I dare say the pea shooter will
help.
Also
unlike the boy Woodison, Marc has struggled to find a local company that
will provide mini buses to away games...but I'm assured that when he
gets back from the desert in October that he'll be trying to find
something a little more comfortable than he has at the moment...and in a
nice shade of blue.
We'd
like to wish Marc all the best in the near future and hope that he comes
home safe to Denis and family. We always claim it is a tough life being
a Killie foot soldier but in the grand scheme of things there are real
soldiers who would only be too glad to only have the price of admission
to games and biased referees to moan about!
