So why do I feel like the patsy, the fall guy, the blindsided winger in rugby who knows he is about to be felled at the ankles after receiving what in the game they call a "hospitalpass"?
On November 5th the body of Sapper William Blanchard, killed in Afghanistan, will pass through Wootton Bassett on its way from RAF Lyneham to a hospital in Oxford.
More than 300,000 elderly people are believed to be abused each year in the UK, and I've almost certainly seen some of them pass through the hospital too.