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£45m lottery winner’s Marine son off to war
18 Nov 2009The son of Britain's biggest lottery winner is preparing to fight in Afghanistan, it was reported today.
Corporal Dan Scadding, 28, of the Royal Marines, above, was granted “exceptional leave” after his father Les won £45 million on 6 November. He returned to duty on Monday, according to the Sun.
A source in Cpl Scadding's unit said: “It's the talk of the regiment. His father can easily buy him out of the military. But for a Marine it is unthinkable to leave your comrades to fight without you.”
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@Trunk, well at least he's going to Afghanistan, unlike a certain ex-president who was bought into the National Guard during Vietnam.
- Jim, London, 18/11/2009 16:17
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Trunk, you miserable so and so. He's off to Afgan to do the job he signed up for. He was allowed leave because his father had had a great stroke of fortune. Can't you be pleased that a soldier was allowed exceptional leave for something good instead of something bad?
No thinking about it, if you could write that then you probably can't be.
- S-M Hearmon, London, UK, 18/11/2009 16:03
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Daddy won the lottery, and he gets leave?? Buy him out of the service? Is that the way your country still works: the rich can do anything they want? Oh, yeah, it is...
Which is why any celebrity or lord or mp or whomever will never have to follow all the 'green laws' that are crushing the common man.
Wake up!
- Trunk, US, 18/11/2009 15:25
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