ABOVE: Prince Harry has called on the UK to support injured forces
For every life taken, which is about 450 in Afghanistan, about 4,000 are injured and that’s what we don’t hear about.
Prince Harry
PRINCE Harry called on all Brits yesterday to get behind our injured forces heroes, roaring: “Never forget their sacrifice.”
In a rallying cry speech, the Apache pilot urged everyone to support our wounded warriors after they return home from the front.
The
royal drew on his experiences in the Afghan war zone during a Walking
With The Wounded charity gala at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.
He said: “For every life taken, which is about 450 in Afghanistan, about 4,000 are injured and that’s what we don’t hear about.
“Arms,
legs that will never grow back, as well as mental injuries – the image
of your best friend being blown up next to you, that’s something that
will never leave you.”
Harry has vowed to join a team of injured service personnel trekking to the South Pole later this year.
He
revealed his fears that support for charities such as Help For Heroes
and Walking With The Wounded will fade once Britain pulls out of
Afghanistan.
“But we’re here to make sure that doesn’t happen,” he added.
Harry spent five days in the freezing Arctic when he joined ex-soldiers on a charity trek to the North Pole in 2012.
A Daily Star team on a gruelling 380-mile Paris to London bike ride for Help For Heroes will arrive back in England today.
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