A wounded British soldier home from Afghanistan on sick leave was forced to spend the night in his car after a hotel refused him a room. Corporal Tomos Stringer was told by staff at Metro Hotel, in Woking, that it was company policy not to accept members of the armed forces as guests. The 24-year-old had traveled to the Surrey town to help with funeral preparations for a friend killed in action. It was so late that Cpl Stringer, who had broken his wrist jumping off an Army truck as it was attacked, had no choice but to sleep in his tiny, two-door car, arm covered in plaster.

Luckily this did not happen in America, although, it wouldn't be surprising if it did. Isn't it amazing that in "civilized" countries where we have laws to prevent this from happening to protected groups(age, race, sex, religious faith) this could happen to a soldier? Especially since the soldier is the one who puts his life in the line of fire to protect those groups. What should this soldiers family do about this obvious discrimination?

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