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Well said Les.................I long for the old respect that the elderly were given along with the kind smiles.

indeed we stood in the "olden days" and the modern
 
I agree with most that you say Kandor but I also believe that people earn respect. It is not automatically bestowed upon the donning of a certain uniform or attaining a certain age. I respected Coppers because they were deserving of it or I was simply scared and now a few rotten apples can cause doubts. Likewise I recall as a Kid at HTS being elbowed out of the way by a woman in her 50's or 60's (down in Hamstead Village) just because we were school kids. I had a bus journey of over an hour to get home but she cared not.

Footnote - My mother would regale me with stories of how her brothers would play the local coppers up (Erdington) by stringing cord across from lamppost to drainpipe at the right height to knock their helmets off.
 
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