Sent this to my MP:-
Dear George Young,
As Remembrance Day approaches, as well as my own family who fought, I am drawn to remember Flt Sgt Copping. He was the pilot of the P40 aircraft found (like a time capsule) in the Egyptian Desert earlier this year.
It is odd how easy it was to focus on the aircraft and the ‘richness’/tantalising thought of it as a time capsule. Mentally, some had it being restored and flying…others pictured it in an ‘as found’ setting. All seems pretty silly now…..the bigger picture was a brave man surviving combat, surviving a crash landing and then attempting to walk out the desert and back into combat:- sadly to fail.
We REALLY do owe him more, we need to find him, we must find him and show how heroism and human sacrifice for others means more than just an exhibit in a museum. In an age when joe public worships soap ‘stars’, reality ‘stars’ and overpaid footballers, we really need to treat this real hero better.
Apparently some human bones were found and the MoD have allegedly discounted them as being from the pilot without even seeing or testing them. This basic test should be done, it is the LEAST that could be done. In this time of Remembrance and with our brave forces still dying for this country, I implore you to please ask The PM to find this hero and afford him the hero’s burial he richly deserves. It could be done as part of an exercise.
Yours sincerely,
Tony Dyer
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