Fair point.
Discussions and debates rarely do though.
Perhaps this thread ought to have been put in another section, where more “robust” chatter takes place.
Maybe in the discussions section even? 
Yep. Nobody was to know how the thread was going to develop though. One of us ought to have asked M&M to shift it once it became clear that GD wasn’t the right place.
Because he was a war hero.
Yep.
The actor Paul Eddington was once asked how he’d liked to be remembered. His reply was “as someone who did the least harm.”
In the case of the DofE, apart from some questionable verbal gaffs (who hasn’t made a few of them in their lives?) and a bit of bad driving, what harm has he done?
Edit: Mind you, having just looked at the sick hateful people thread, Philip did used to take part in game hunting and have some piccies of his successful safari kills. Not quite sure how those who call him a hero due to his ww2 efforts but also berate big game hunters manage to marry those two aspects with a clear conscience. Their call though!
Even more odd is that he was a president of the WWF. seems a bit of a contradiction!!
I never expected my casual reporting of the news would change into this and indeed it was quite gentle mildly jossing until words like hate were thrown into the mix. Quite unnecessarily in my option .
Yes Dex being full of respect for the pheasant murdering / boar killing old war hero I wasn’t going to mention that but he has gone on safaris too and their are pictures to prove it …
The whole blooming family enjoy shooting live animals but no doubtless it will only be for conservation purposes cough cough
If being a war hero qualifies a person for luxury hospital facilities …why are many of our war hero’s/ ex servicemen on the NHS waiting lists …hmmmm
I hope he recovers. But wonderful man No; not so much
No more, possibly not even as much as the East End docker having to live and work where blanket bombing was taking place or the fire watchers unable to take shelter while the raids were taking place around them.
What are you blabbing on about?
How can he be ‘no more’ a war hero. He was one then & he still is one.
Why bring the fire watchers & the dockers into it?
Go and find somebody more your own age to pick on (assuming you aren’t in your 90’s)
Only one old bloke reported that he was fifty years on.
We do t know what the truth really was but I suspect this as I said before was standard procedure for misdirecting enemy fire .
That’s so funny!
Phillip-el-Greco was no more a war hero than many if not most of Joe Public during the war, or ANY of the men and women who put their lives on the line in any of the theatres of war.
You’re so repetitive.
I think most people are bored with this now. Give it a rest Todger.
Go attack my bollard thread instead! 
Thank you Carol, I now see you as a heroine for relieving our boredom! 
Bollards to that 
He contributed to the war effort by putting himself in harm’s way. Ergo he’s a hero. True he didn’t get the Victoria cross, which I guess is one way of delineating between a “bog standard” hero and an extraordinary hero. Can’t see the benefit in trying to downgrade his efforts/role TAT.
However, it does seem a bit out of line to try and elevate him above others.
Thanks for the invitation but it’s probably best that I don’t. As for Phillip there’s nothing that he did during the war that singles him out from most other folk who found themselves in the front line and the REAL war heroes.
The East End docker also put his life on the line 24/7 as did factory workers everywhere especially in manufacturing towns and cities such as Coventry and beyond.