Another post that presents People Against Live Exports and Intensive Farming as a professional and effective lobby group for animal welfare (not!).

I don't think we need another thread for awful poetry - we've got this one already.

PALE IF

that was one

I'm a poet
And I don't even know it

Also, I wrote one about Ginx. Once she raves on I'll have more material for more poems.
Posted by JSP1488, Monday, 10 September 2007 9:50:40 PM

Hello sweetie; you mentioned my name......?

on the wars and blood spilt on this nations soil - best we forget.

I have the privilege of nursing older Australians. I left a job once but not before saying something aloud in the dining room of this particular nursing home. I said about 'what do I know. How we young people should be sitting at the feet of you. Your wisdom. What you have been through'. I was breaking down. I wasn't allowed by one man to give him insulin; he'd met Rommel and seen the dessert/war. For him, to receive an injection might as well have been 'give me the bullet'. It was scary, the look in his eyes. The fear but I will always listen. I will always respect the wishes. I know of someone who has been on the Kokada trail, been POW's, lead men in war and then went on to build Gold Coast's 'Dream World'.
ANZAC day brings a whole new respect out of me; I will buy a pin every year and I will talk to diggers. I am always kind and never condescending or belittling in my job or with my words as an Aged Care Nurse. Is a privilege indeed to befriend these older Australians. What does anyone born post Vietnam know about war anyway, but what we see on TV, what we might hear or read and sometimes from those who experienced it first hand. The reality is just too unimaginable to even begin to imagine it. I will always Respect older Australians with a capital "R".

Cakers
There memory is carried on by unselfish people such as yourself. People who walk that track still in their minds.
People who make time to stop and think speak out.
Thank You for speaking out and your comments on this post.