Jonathan Williams
A DISABLED war veteran says he is distraught after being stripped of benefits days before Christmas in a “Kafkaesque nightmare.”
Morning Star reader and ex-RAF man Jonathan Williams, 56, served with the UN in Bosnia. He was trapped under fire in the siege of Sarajevo, leaving him with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Mr Williams also served several tours of duty in Northern Ireland during the Troubles and on exercise in the Arctic Circle was injured when a helicopter landed on him.
WILL DRY speaks to three former members of the armed forces about the political hypocrisy surrounding Armistice Day, how war is a function of class society, and the far right’s use of militarism and nationalism to divide working people
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