Nancy Wake
Regarding Prime Minister John Key saying that giving Nancy Wake an honour was not possible because her wartime deeds had already been recognised by Britain ["Lack of recognition vexes NZ war vet saved by Wake", Express, August 9]; nothing is impossible. It just takes longer.
The RSA review of December 2001 states that "Nancy says she still has a New Zealand passport". Biographer Peter Fitzsimmons says Nancy's great-grandmother, Pourewa, was the first Maori to marry a white man, Charles Cossell, in 1836.
Successive governments have turned a blind eye to her achievements and I have to ask why? Because she is a woman?
She was born a New Zealander and we should be proud of her.
LAURIE HAM, Blenheim
http://www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-express/news/letters-to-the-editor/5434736/Nancy-Wake-Footloose-and-Pollution
No comments:
Post a Comment