The promise I had to keep: to wear a dress at my fallen friend's funeralWriggling into the £4.99 Primark dress,Barry Delaney never paused to consider what others might think. He and his best pal Kevin Elliott had made a pact and that was all that mattered.
Three years ago, they had agreed that Delaney would wear a dress – the brighter, and the better – if Elliott was killed in a action. Their strange covenant would be realised sooner than either could absorb expected; private Elliott died final month the victim of a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan.
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Source: theguardian.com