MBE for Bletchley codebreaker

TarJak · 12-30-12, 05:27 PM

Recognition for service should have been immediate, secret or not. The governments of the day though saw it differently. TBH I think today's governments are really only doing it for the PR, rather than for the people who served.

Platapus · 12-30-12, 07:46 PM

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Originally Posted by TarJak

Recognition for service should have been immediate, secret or not.

Recognition may indeed have been immediate. But if the recognition was held in channels (not uncommon), the public would never know.

Cybermat47 · 12-30-12, 08:15 PM

They shortened the war by a year...and now they get recognised!?

BossMark · 12-31-12, 04:15 AM

Well it took long enough...............

Jimbuna · 12-31-12, 04:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Cybermat47

They shortened the war by a year...and now they get recognised!?

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The decrypts are credited with helping shorten the war by at least two years.

TarJak · 12-31-12, 07:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Platapus

Recognition may indeed have been immediate. But if the recognition was held in channels (not uncommon), the public would never know.

I've got no problem with that.

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TarJak Fleet Admiral Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 17,052 Downloads: 150 Uploads: 8	Recognition for service should have been immediate, secret or not. The governments of the day though saw it differently. TBH I think today's governments are really only doing it for the PR, rather than for the people who served.