Trying to belittle Tom's efforts as he was is not the thing to do at all and it displays a weakness to attention grab.
I object to that comment. There was no belittleing in my comments at all. I was merely trying to suggest that the startling thing about Moore's efforts werent the efforts themselves but the great response of the British public and of which we can be proud. Target £1000 and we gave £30million!! His walks are indeed being copied by a 100 year old British Indian called Choudhury but with less public response - just £100k. And many others including disabled kids have done similar things without catching the public imagination.
As for the military bit, my late F-I- L had a parallel career rising to Major fighting the Japs in the artillery regiments in Burma. Likely they would have know each other as brother officers, both from Yorkshire.
