Re: Navy bootcamp ?
Each year our family go along to the big ANZAC day parade, there's less and less of them each year. I used to drink with a lot of them at one time in my younger days and they were all equals, that was the big thing I always remember about them. It didn't matter if they'd been through WWI, WWII, Vietnam, Korea, Cambodia, or any other arena of war they all had a conjoined chartharsis which was the strength of them all. They shared the loss of many and carried their heads high to have been the ones who came back, but they never permitted breaking in the ranks of any service to argue worth of army, air force, or navy.<br />Women in the forces are saluted as easily as the men and we lost our share of women through the years. There's many a mother who would have rather been there herself than loose her son that way!<br />To make a critisisim of women in war is, I feel a bit late by todays standards. Hell if a womens battalian had marched through Paris following the skirmish there and I'd been in the population, I'd certainly have waved the flag with vigor for them.<br />PDS, I hope your nephew enjoys the navy and finds everything he's looking for. He'll come through it a stronger and more rounded man than he is at present. The skills he'll learn with remain with him throughout his days and he'll proudly tell his children and grandchildren many stories.<br />Ross
