Bar Refuses to Serve Men In Uniform
by admin on Aug.13, 2009, under Politics
Grieving soldiers were prevented from entering a bar because they were in military uniform after attending the funeral of a comrade killed in Afghanistan.
Door staff at Phatz in Maidenhead, Berkshire, refused to lift a ‘no uniforms’ policy, despite the group being accompanied by the dead soldier’s father.
The snub is the latest in a string of incidents where military personnel have been ill treated because of the clothes they wear.
Official concern is so great that Gordon Brown approved the creation of an Armed Forces Day.
Rifleman Daniel Hume, 22, was killed by a roadside bomb last month while on foot patrol with 4th Battalion The Rifles at Nad e-Ali, in Helmand.
His funeral took place last Thursday afternoon. Read on…
I found this really strange. Apparently there has been a rise in anti-military sentiments in the UK. It’s a shame that something like this would have to happen. The world over it seems that countries aren’t giving their veterans, or military personnel currently in service, the respect that they deserve.
These men had been at a funeral for a brave young man who gave his life for his country and it is a great pity that the bar thought they were not suitable customers given the sacrifice their friend had made.’
