Why Help for Heroes?

I work in an office where the greatest risk of injury is a paper cut, or maybe a nasty stapler incident. My grandfather was a war hero http://www.thevictoriacross.net/recipients/spencer_john_bent.html

He left me a lot to live up to. If Folk for Heroes can raise some money for H4H, then that's a small start.

Whether or not one approves of the war in Afghanistan, British servicemen and women are out there on our behalf. Everyday we ask them to put their lives at risk. Everyday they know that the Taliban will do all they can to harm them. Yet they still go to work and do their job.

It seems an almost daily news item that another soldier has been killed. Many more are being injured. Some of them horrifically.

When the war in Afghanistan is over and has become yesterday's news, our wounded service personnel will still be living lives forever altered by their injuries. We need to make sure their sacrifice on our behalf is not forgotten. We need to make sure their needs - financial and emotional - are not ignored.

Help for Heroes has done a fantastic job at raising awareness of the plight of the wounded. http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/