I was there big time. I am sorry it happened it did not need to. It cost me a lot, friends, family separations, but on the plus side it gave my family and myself a chance to live in another country (Belgium) and experience another way of life. It taught my kids how to speak another language, and and gave them a different way of looking at the world. On the minus side I made it too late to say goodbye to my father, it cost me a heap of money, and most of all it caused me to become bitter. On a recent flight back to OZ I came across a grey haired bloke wearing two stripes, we both bowed our heads at one another, there was no need to speak, we both knew the story. If it did nothing else it started enterprise bargaining for the future aircrews, but it was a hell of a price to pay. Amen.