3 Comments

1. Pedro

   April 26, 2012

   Yes, what a pity Gillard failed again.

   "All of us remember, because all of us inhabit the freedom the Anzacs won for us."

2. Patrick

   April 26, 2012

   I love the curmudgeonly old fart thing, I do it reasonably well myself if I must say so.

   But I think the curmudgeonly old fart things in this context has degraded to no more than a pathetic iteration of class snobbery and 'things aren't what they used to be'.

   Today's soldiers, seamen and air force personnel aren't any less brave that I know of, but I reckon they (and for that matter many of the original ANZACs) are more like the yobbo youth you're so heartily sick of than they are you.

3. Rex

   April 26, 2012

   Yeah? I reckon they'd see a group of young people from a background of unimaginable wealth and privilege, indulging their emotions in a very unmanly manner. I think they'd say "Harden the Fuck Up Kids."