Photo - “The Song of Australia” being sung by Delma Tronson and three others at ANZAC Cove, 1999
A question in recent weeks leading up to last Saturday’s Federal election related to veterans and considering the succour for those loved ones who died in service and those who returned with a whole different perspective.
Way back in 2012 - I wrote of this in Christian Today - Is there a true value or a relative value of our servicemen and women – it was rated as one of the Best of 2012 in Christian Today Australia, this was written: The nation can never wear the shoes of those who have witnessed battle at first hand. Moreover, military awards are inevitably relative and political. Many who should have received such acknowledgement never did. Perhaps no one saw what actually happened. Often an officer was celebrated for what his men achieved, at great risk and cost to themselves. They were the ones in mortal danger.
is it a good deal or not. and then the third area is all of iran s other activities. i think the obama administration has hurt their credibility when they try to say it s a choice between this agreement oar war. and that s basically the approach that they have put out there. i think a lot of folks think you can have a better agreement. there are some who believe that even no agreement would be better than this which essentially ratifies iran as a nuclear threshold state. we re going to have a hearing in the arms services committee tomorrow morning to hear a panel of outside experts but the more you dig into it, the skepticism on various aspects of this agreement is really growing on both sides of the aisle. the secretary says if there s no agreement, if congress rejects it and overrides the president s expected veto, the international coalition which imposed tough sanctions on iran will crumble. there willing nothing stopping