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By Dilan Thampapillai, published 29/4/2015In his tweets McIntyre suggested that the sanitised version of the Anzacs that is remembered today bears little resemblance to the realities of WWI. In that sense, what McIntyre wrote is not completely inaccurate.
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The entire article is emotional claptrap craftily constructed to appeal to people like Killarney. It's purpose is to give the impression that all soldiers are eager go to war with rampant erections, Raping & Pillaging every female from babies to the aged & infirmed. The entire article is insidious in it's intent to portray Soldiers as brutish morons.
I have no doubt there were instances of Rape & Pillage but they would have been totally unusual.
As for the Japanese prisoners in WW11. An old uncle of mine told me that they had captured a group of Japanese & they were taken to an internment camp. A number of the Japanese indicated that they wished to die, as being taken prisoner was a disgrace. These prisoners were given a live grenade. They walked up the beach a little & killed themselves. Apparently this was common.
Killarney: blokey courage, mateship, Anzac biscuits and 'becoming a nation'.
Very sneaky. Yes, I've read Dr. Elizabeth A. Thomson, "Battling with Words" too. & it's a load of feminist Academic hot cock.