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| Thread ID: 102764 | 2009-08-31 13:26:00 | Nancy Wake | Sweep (90) | PC World Chat |
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| 805711 | 2009-08-31 13:26:00 | Should Nancy Wake receive Honours in New Zealand? Should we claim her as our own. I believe so but that is just my opinion. home.nzcity.co.nz Put your points forward as you please. And where does this put us as a Nation being as the Gov't has put back Knights and Dames in spite of this being chucked out earlier? A little history:- www.google.co.nz Make of it what you will. I never saw the 1987 version. I saw an earlier one. And I have read books. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 805712 | 2009-08-31 18:50:00 | ahem The US did it so it MUST be OK. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 805713 | 2009-08-31 19:50:00 | Britain did so why not | gary67 (56) | ||
| 805714 | 2009-08-31 20:35:00 | Cant see why not, I have read her book and wondered why she isn't more famous. She was brave and more than did her part in the war. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 805715 | 2009-08-31 23:01:00 | Cant see why not, I have read her book and wondered why she isn't more famous. She was brave and more than did her part in the war. Totally agree. |
Marnie (4574) | ||
| 805716 | 2009-08-31 23:19:00 | I can't figure why New Zealand has not done this earlier and why there is debate about the issue. It should have been a done deal already! |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 805717 | 2009-08-31 23:56:00 | I might agree if I had heard of her.! | Cicero (40) | ||
| 805718 | 2009-09-01 00:07:00 | I might agree if I had heard of her.! That's not her fault :p "Prime Minister John Key says Veterans' Affairs Minister Judith Collins has raised the matter with him personally and the issue is being considered. He says Nancy Wake is a remarkable person who achieved incredible things, but there has been a finely balanced debate about whether or not New Zealand should honour her." What he means is "After waiting this long would it look like we are trying to grab some of her reflected glory?" The time to honour Nancy Wake was during or just after WW2 and some of the Brits admit that they should have awarded a George Cross (civil VC) rather than the Medal. |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 805719 | 2009-09-01 01:24:00 | Fancy that,I had never heard of her,she a super lass alright. www.nzedge.com Mind you she was a Maori. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 805720 | 2009-09-01 02:26:00 | Fancy that,I had never heard of her,she a super lass alright. www.nzedge.com Mind you she was a Maori. "as her English great-grandmother had been a Maori maiden by the name of Pourewa. She had been the first of her race to marry a white man, in the person of Nancy's English great-grandfather Charles Cossell, and they were wed by the Reverend William Williams at Waimate Mission Station on 26 October, 1836. Legend has it that the great Maori chieftain, Hone Heke, had loved Pourewa himself and had sworn death to them both, but had been killed in the Maori Wars before fulfilling his threat." Hone Heke died of TB in 1850, 1st plot hole :D |
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