On the Australian Screenshots site recently.....
Someone had the audacity to write about Remembrance day Nov 11.
I guess most of the people on this site are so young that they think war is all about terrorism and what the TV networks beat up every night on TV.
As the comments on the Aus screenshots site was censored by another very young moderator, because yet another young man had complained that real life had no place in the thread.
I got to tell you, that had not my great grandfather and many of his cousins given their life in the Great War, and many more in the second war, all of you people out there might have been speaking another language these days, or worse still, if the enemy that nearly took over Australia had done it, you may not even be here now to play your games on a computer, that may not even have been invented. Remember this "enemy" turned out to be a copier, rather than inventor.
Young people of today probably have no idea what war means. I am an old bloke who spent 12 months in Vietnam, as a Engineer sapper. My job was up front, clearing trails of mines, searching tunnels, delousing booby traps and building a mine field that eventually took out many of my mates.
I am 64 years old and presently less than a thousand troops are in the middle east doing what everybody had to do as part of growing up when I was a youngster.
Today people volunteer to go to war. Prior to the ALP taking power from the Liberals in 1975 Australians faced conscription and were sent to war like it or not.
We made the World safer, and I believe many youngsters can be very ignorant about what soldiers have done to keep your way of life in a free country the way it is today.
Graffiti vandalism is my gauge of the disrespect the young exhibit towards the old farts who built this Country. One has to wonder what their children will be doing to upset them, as they grow old. Oh yes you all will grow old, it is inescapable, I am sorry to say. So treat others with the respect you would hope will be returned to you during your life on this great planet we call home.
Cheers and with respect
Rod Young
"Lest we forget"
Someone had the audacity to write about Remembrance day Nov 11.
I guess most of the people on this site are so young that they think war is all about terrorism and what the TV networks beat up every night on TV.
As the comments on the Aus screenshots site was censored by another very young moderator, because yet another young man had complained that real life had no place in the thread.
I got to tell you, that had not my great grandfather and many of his cousins given their life in the Great War, and many more in the second war, all of you people out there might have been speaking another language these days, or worse still, if the enemy that nearly took over Australia had done it, you may not even be here now to play your games on a computer, that may not even have been invented. Remember this "enemy" turned out to be a copier, rather than inventor.
Young people of today probably have no idea what war means. I am an old bloke who spent 12 months in Vietnam, as a Engineer sapper. My job was up front, clearing trails of mines, searching tunnels, delousing booby traps and building a mine field that eventually took out many of my mates.
I am 64 years old and presently less than a thousand troops are in the middle east doing what everybody had to do as part of growing up when I was a youngster.
Today people volunteer to go to war. Prior to the ALP taking power from the Liberals in 1975 Australians faced conscription and were sent to war like it or not.
We made the World safer, and I believe many youngsters can be very ignorant about what soldiers have done to keep your way of life in a free country the way it is today.
Graffiti vandalism is my gauge of the disrespect the young exhibit towards the old farts who built this Country. One has to wonder what their children will be doing to upset them, as they grow old. Oh yes you all will grow old, it is inescapable, I am sorry to say. So treat others with the respect you would hope will be returned to you during your life on this great planet we call home.
Cheers and with respect
Rod Young
"Lest we forget"