Originally posted by: RaniZelda
How's everyone doing? 🤗
Dhairya, Captain Sir Tom Moore was a veteran Army officer here in the UK, who became famous back in April last year during the first UK lockdown for COVID. He wanted to raise money for charity, and to support the UK national health service (i.e. doctors and nurses who were battling the pandemic), and so in the lead-up to his 100th birthday, he decided to walk lengths of his garden every day until he'd walked 100 lengths, and his aim was of raising £1,000 for the NHS.
He ended up raising £33 million because people fell in love with him and his spirit. That quote Huma posted was something he said back in April re: the pandemic.
He was knighted by the Queen and became a national treasure.
He recently contracted COVID and was taken into hospital, where sadly he passed away. So it's a sad time for those of us in the UK because he'd almost become part of everyone's families. He was a beacon, almost, of that 'keep calm and carry on' fighting spirit the British used to be known for.
My guy ❤️
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