people selling war medals!!!!!

[mrsshears]

AIBU? This really angers me! everything the recipient went through to get them only for one of his/her relatives to sell them for a couple of hundred quid!!!!
I have just watched this happen on dickinsons real deal and have seen it many times before on similair shows,i find it so disrespectful it makes my blood boil!!!!

My DP buys WW1 medals, he has a large collection but he tends to try and piece together the persons military career and for many of the medals he has written a pamphlet with the persons story if possible ie what battles they were in, where they came from and dispatches if possible guess where my holidays are spent.
It is sad when people sell the medals to put food on their families table but better that they be with some one who appreciates them then thrown in the back of a cup

Cupboard even

One of the first things my grandmother did after my grandfather died was to sell all of his medals. She sold them to someone in the same street who passed them off as his own.

Yabu to be angry about it, it's really none of your business.

More often than not, people who buy medals look after them, and respect that sacrifice that people made befor they recieved them. Buyers see them as something special, otherwise they wouldn't be buying them.

I think it's better for medals to be in the hands of people that recognise their significance, rather than a family member who doesn't care.

dp's dad gave all his medals to the boy next door to play with - he didn't want anything to do with them

i wouldn't judge anyone on what they wanted to do with them

My mums house got flooded.They had to put what they salvaged into storage for 10 months while their house was fixed.When they got their stuff back both my dads and my brothers medals were missing. My dad was a commando and fought all over the world during WW2.Those medals meant something to him and to me as they were a symbol of sacrifice made to ensure my generations freedom.My brother fought in the Falklands.There is a big market for medals by all accounts.
An to the bastard that stole em,I hope the money you got for them did you no good at all

Yes applepies, my grandad had no regard for his either, thought the whole thing of medals was a waste of time, my father is pretty much of the same opinion. I think the thing that got to both of them was and remains that people focus on medals not on the poor soles who went through a living hell to get them and those same people were left to rot when they returned injured.

My Grandad thought the same Applepies