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Nov 13, 2022, 10 tweets

While you’re still in bed, veterans are queuing to take their place on Horseguards for #remembranceday2022

Mirror video supremo @EddieHenryJames and I are with them - wearing the #MissingMedal @thehuwedwards

Streams of veterans of all services coming past us, all wearing varieties of medals. Some weighed down with them.

Nuke test vets will be the only guys here with no medal. #missingmedal

Currently telling every camera crew I can find about the nuclear test veterans. Huge numbers gathering here. Coverage on your tellybox from 1045am. #RemembranceDay

Nuke veterans and families prepare for the Cenotaph while wearing the #missingmedal #remembranceday2022

Veterans lined up and ready to march. I am the only journalist who has spoken to these men about their #missingmedal today. Shameful. #remembranceday2022 #thehuwedwards @SkyNews

Test veterans rolling down Whitehall. These are the men successive government have never remembered. #missingmedal #Remembrance

Nuclear veterans applauded by the Falklands veterans, but still ignored by their government. #missingmedal #RemembranceSunday

Test veterans watch the politicians line up to lay their wreaths - Starmer has guaranteed Labour would give them the #missingmedal #RemembranceSunday

Observing the silence in Whitehall. #missingmedal #RemembranceSunday

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