Sharing the same sentiment...
It kinda puts all of today's crap in perspective doesn't it?
The industry and society in which we are involved takes so much for granted, its seems obsessed with RIGHTS but mentions little of RESPONSIBILITY. Having served quite a few years in the peacetime armed forces, I understand the mateship that lingers beyond the years, but I often wonder whether those fella worry whether or not all of it was in vain....
Japan the enemy, now a valued trading partner........
Germany an enemy, now a prolific exporter of motor vehicles!
Vietnam a great tourist destination....
An new airport in france over the Somme cemetry..
Inside 50 years everything has changed, it makes all the sacrifice and the wastage so pointless, and I feel it insults those buggas that shouldered the repsonsibility when it was asked of them, no matter which the conflict. I always remember an old mate who retired from the Army a Wo2, having been to Somalia, moved around the country side every two years at the whim of the SYSTEM....He told me of the pension entitlements....I guess I shouldn't be suprised a public serpant retires on twice as much!
One day, maybe we'll figure it out that the lucky country owes so much to relatively so few....
Cheers fellas, who's for two up!
