Pete, you beat me to it... I knew an Englishman living in Ireland who was in the Ballybrooke barracks during the raid that killed South... in point of fact, many heros of many wars, as well as many heros who resisted war, and many cowards and many who stood on the side lines, and many who did what they could or little at all, had blond hair, brown hair, were tall - short, gay or straight, so what?
Cheers
Larry