Merry xmas to all and may you, and your family, have the best times of all. From today, the 24th, you are allowed to have 20 days off from thinking, and thats a fact.LOL These days there is not a lot to celebrate about, but if we try hard, Santa will understand! But I may have a hard time letting it all in, but again! its all about the growing years and not about the poor me syndrome. Let me tell you one more thing. The more people we have in this world, the harder it will become.
I hope Evolution has helped.

Maybe I should take some of my own advice!

P/S Todays world is putting too much pressure on us all. Try to throw away what is not important, and think of those things that are.

We all have a path to follow, but only you have the key.

Doors will open and close, but love will last for ever.

All the best.

Evolution

Merry Christmas to all on this thread. I have personal friends who were conscripted into the Vietnam War, if they didn't go they would have been placed in prison. These "boys" were our childhood friends and school mates. Most didn't return. Most of these men - to today - won't discuss the attrocities they witnessed. Those that will speak, speak only in quiet voices amongst themselves. What still angers these men was the lack of support from our Government when they returned. It took our Government 20 years to acknowledge their service in the Vietnam War. It took 20 years before these heroes were permitted (by Government) to participate in the Anzac Day March. I still retain newspapers from that first march by our Vietnam Veterans - "WELCOME HOME". Suicides are high amongst our serving troops from the Vietnam era - no statistics are kept - I wonder why. They are still fighting in order to receive medical treatment for ongoing trauma occurring in their lives due to the horrors they witnessed.

My father was in the Army during the Second World War, again my father (and most other fathers) didn't speak of the experiences they had to endure.

To all ex-service personnel and current personnel - thank you for fighting for our country and our beliefs.

"Suicides are high amongst our serving troops from the Vietnam era - no statistics are kept - I wonder why." (SAINTS)

The following thread may assist you in solving the questions you ask above and give you a better understanding of how Sir Richard Dodd misled Australia's Royal Commission into the effects of Agent Orange.

It does not surprise me to find that this "eminent" cancer scientist has no doubt been captured by Monsanto, the dodgy drug manufacturer of this awful chemical:

http://www.theecologist.org/pdf/1998RichardDoll_081206.pdf

Go to Page 85 for details.