“A lot of lives could be saved if they attached flails to tanks to detonate these mines.”
He added: “I don’t think our soldiers should be there.”
Andy Robbins, aged 25, of Longford, Coventry, who was there with seven members of his family, including three-year-old son Tyler, said: “My other half’s little brother is in the army cadets and my dad was in the Queen’s Own Hussars in Aden in the 1960s.
“I’ve brought Tyler so he understands what these soldiers have done for us. At the end of the day they’re why this country is what it is.”
Also there was Martin Ashton, aged 44, from Longford, with his children Bradley, five, and Ella, three.
Martin said: “It’s good to show support because of all that has gone on in Afghanistan and the previous wars.”
Led by the City of Coventry Corps of Drums from Spencer Park, the parade made the short journey to the cenotaph at the war memorial park where the Bishop of Coventry paid tribute to those who have made the ultimate sacrifice in times of war.
More than 1.5 million British servicemen and women have died in the line of duty since the outbreak of The First World War nearly 100 years ago.
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