Foxy, these are not facts they are press releases from the war office, which is a puppet to Canberra.
You and I did not witness these 'alleged' wonders, so it is that they are not facts but merely stories and reports by an organisation just like any other govt body.
And if you take anything the govt says as gospel, mores the pity, I gave you more credit than this.
The basis of my objection to this guy is that I demand better, much better from a guy in his position.
By firstly coming out saying he will remove all forms of iconography from the armed forces, one minute, then the next decides he was wrong and does a back flip.
No I'm sorry, he should never have even entertained the topic in the first place.
If he is such a distinguished person he must have nothing to do or think about if he bothers to waste everyones time and morale on such a meaningless issue as 'T' shirts and the iconography there-on.

Dear ALTRAV,

No matter what your opinion is of this man.
He has served with distinction.
His life's record speaks for itself.
It does not need any-one to either embellish it
or try to demean it.

See you on another discussion.

This one has run its course for me.

'There are none so blind as those who will not see'.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight
but no vision.

Foxy, you can use all the oxymorons and cleches you want.
You still insist on not seeing inside a story and continue to accept what is 'put out' knowing full well it is heavily biased towards a particular agenda.
Fine, you carry on believing all and sunder, I will continue to question and look beyond the surface in search of the truth.
As has been the case for as long as I can remember, the facts and the truth are rarely one and the same.
The truth is boring.
Ask any journo.

cont......

Oh and BTW, vision is over-rated and non-dimensional.
I'll take sight before vision any day.
For starters it is three dimensional and is right in front of you.
Vision is in the mind and has no immediate value or substance or use.
It is largely the thing of dreamers and not do-ers.
And so it is that you can keep dreaming of what you believe something is, and I will continue to LOOK for what something really IS.