Lived Experience Forum

[Maggie]

Thanks @Owlunar  That’s a touching/beautiful story. I don’t have memories to share, but enjoy reading what others have to say. Thanks for the invite @Owlunar  much appreciated. 🌺🌺

[Owlunar]

Thanks @Appleblossom 

For whatever reason I can't hear anything from  your link - however I looked up the lyrics of  And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda - 

And they are tough words and true. I decided not to post them here

I went to the War Memorial in Canberra in 2016 - I think listening to my grandfather all those years ago had prepared me for the diorama done so exquisitely for the public and history - but I did notice the dazed faces of some of those seeing such imagery perhaps for the first time, It is a confronting truth - our modern world has been paid for - truly - and no words I can think of really say it - perhaps the words of that song do

Dec

[Owlunar]

Thanks @Maggie 

You do have a story - it's a very quiet and private one you just told - it's yours

Actually - having such a military history in my own family made it an interesting posibility that I could join the army myself - my father did not allow my brother and I to join the regular army but we both joined the CMF - the Citizens Military Forces - which is what the Reserve was called back then - it was an incredibly interesting part of my life and I learned so much in the time I served. I wish I could have joined the regular army but then - my life has been interesting without that

Thanks again

Dec

[Owlunar]

Yes @Faith-and-Hope 

Poppy pins and Anzac badges of bayonets arranged to look like the rising sun

I haven't bought any this year - I have others in the form of wrist bands latched on a ring on my bag - and they go everywhere with me - to important not to be an important part of my life every day.

Dec

[TAB]

Hopefully wasn't on the Melbourne @Former-Member well they all had asbestos as well then who knows

[TAB]

Was your father Australian? @Appleblossom Thought you said you were Duits ok Dutch

[TAB]

My father was in German Panzers @Owlunar Russian Front
It did for him was not a nice person plus nightmares every night of life since then ie PTSD .Enemy gets that too apparently plus no help

[Appleblossom]

@TABMother Dutch and Father Australian.

He died young and had no family so most family input was dominated by dutch, which was weird considering this was the country I was raised in.  Took a while for me to join all the dots.

[TAB]

Oh k @Appleblossom wlda thort other way round.
So we have don't belong thing in common maybe? Nah u said uncles etc
My father is german. Mothers family from Birmingham 1836 To Aust lol

[Snowie]