Autistic Sunderland youngsters remember fallen heroes at special remembrance event

Autistic youngsters at Tasker College welcomed current and former military personnel.

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00:00That's for Northern Ireland, it's a general service medal, and that's the bar on the top

00:07to prove I've been more than once. I went five minutes, but you only get one bar to prove

00:12that you've been more than once. That one's for the UN, I served in Cyprus twice, so anywhere

00:19you go for the UN, you get a medal of that colour.

00:25You can have a look in a minute.

00:26Yeah, that's my medals there. These ones are my dad's medals from the Second World War,

00:32which you have to wear on your right hand side.

00:35Is there a reason for it being on the right?

00:37Because they're not mine. I'm allowed to wear them because they're on my father's.

00:42But you wear them on the right hand side?

00:43You wear them on the right hand side, and you wear your own on the left.

00:56Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm.