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The Prince of Wales has paid tribute to British forces
fighting in Afghanistan in a Christmas radio broadcast to troops serving
overseas. Charles thanked the servicemen and women for their
relentless courage and said the nation owed them "an everlasting debt of
gratitude."
In his message, recorded last week at St James's Palace, the
prince said all those stationed abroad were in his thoughts and prayers.
"I also wanted to pay tribute to the extraordinary
contribution made by those of you who belong to our armed forces, in all sorts
of different parts of the world," he said. "Nowhere is your fortitude
and relentless courage more clearly on display than in Afghanistan, where your
resilience, patience and determination to see the job through – usually in
impossibly difficult conditions and circumstances – is, quite simply,
humbling."
He joked about receiving a letter from his son Prince Harry,
an Apache helicopter co-pilot gunner serving with the army air corps, who has
been stationed at Camp Bastion since September.
Originally published in: The Guardian
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