There is no question as to the accuracy of the article.

What is infuriating, is that it would have been known, or at the very least predicable, that the type of deployments that the soldiers were subjected to, would create the conditions conducive to increased mental problems of the troops involved.

It was over 30 years after my return from Vietnam, when a VVA councilor provided the information that dropped everything into place.

The situation isn't dissimilar to what is happening now.

The problem was known and is known, as is the solution.

I would suspect that the problem for the politicians, is admitting responsibility and paying the price to make matters bearable.

Isn't  it interesting that the Australian government has given its soldiers in the Australian Army a life sentence and yet will allow the soldiers of Islamic State back into Australia, because they cannot “legally” keep them out and I guess provide them with the dole and a medicare card.  

The Editor would not print what I think of Politicians, the Army brass and DVA. 

The Taronga Zoo resort plan is a disgrace.

The land is for the zoo and animal research and the plan is just cashing in on the prized location.

It is a sneaky way to to build a hotel on the harbour, will it be a casino next? 

In any case zoos that really care about creatures belong in open space in regional locations.

They are another way to shift employment to regional locations.

Zoos in cities are a relic of a century ago not today’s times.

These are city decisions that regional MPs should object to and push to have city zoos relocated to suitable regional locations and the jobs that will be created through the zoo and tourism.

The creatures deserve open space in today’s times.

It seems hard to understand but after all the world has been through you would think we just might have learnt by now.

WWI started by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, the most despised man in Europe, and to Germany's surprise England happily jumped in more or less saying "come on in the war's lovely".

After that debacle the powers that be decided (especially France) to make Germany pay and pay for its war crimes.

Which they did, time and time again leaving Germany's starving citizens lying dead in the streets and people wonder why Hitler came to power. There is much more to it of course, but there we had the basis for WWII which again resolved nothing but more dead people.

We didn't have much choice but to go and fight, and fight we did.

The Australian soldier is well regarded around the world, and so they should be.

Now, we have two “supposed” madmen at odds with each other bringing the world possibly to another major war.

Maybe it should happen, our young people are a lot more educated than they used to be and when the old fogies all die out with their antiquated ideas we just might have peace and co operation between the nations.

By the way, I am one of those old fogies, but I have always wanted peace – my father served in WWII and he would never talk about it, and died a broken man.

The only thing he ever said that made sense to me was that there is no justice in the world.