You need to catch up on six years of comments. It’s the singers and whoever made them sing at this kitsch-laden coronation ceremony that I was calling hamalli, not the soldiers. The “Band” was a reference to “Band of brothers”. D-Day is the day of the ceremony.

Do I have to deconstruct every remark?

The lack of elegant writing insults the good people who stand up to be counted when evil abounds.

A more articulate saying from George Bernard Shaw to the affect — ‘good people sleep easy at night because rough men protect them’

If i may relate a personal anecdote about one man on D-Day – an Irishman who at the outbreak of war in 1939 was in a Seminary – come 1941 his conscience told him to walk out of the Seminary, sail to the USA and join the 82nd Airborne Regiment. During the first days of D-Day he was behind enemy lines doing what he believed to be right. The only holidays he ever took were to the islands of Malta and Gozo. After the war this man went back to the Church and I had the great honour of having Father Manning wed my first wife and I in 1979.

Please think twice before calling such a man a hamali.

But there again, had it not be for the hamalli hooligans, D-Day would not have been won by the right side.This is historically and scientifically proven. Do you think you can win a more by a bunch of tal-pepe’?