I should use this platform as a vent to write and blurt the stuff that I want to SHOUT at the world, publish and be done with... But it never seems to come to mind when I'm in that mood. ...Oddly, as this is exactly the place to rant and rave, as I don't advertise [nor deny] or project the presence of my occasional Blob....
It's funny/odd... That I spend more time contemplating How to say something, than actually writing what I want to say.
I don't post Lots of stuff on another media... as A: I don't want to start an uninformed argument, and B: I don't really want to offend.
Considering that I'm largely preaching to the converted/perverted... It shouldn't be an issue, but it is... I'd like to create an interesting discussion, or have folk ask "Why do you say..." or "However" ...but that's rarely the case on "social" media.
CULTURE and ROYAL COMMISSIONS. I've added to the rush of opinions wishing for a Royal Commission into Veterans Suicide...! Not for the ideal that it would change the fact; but for the hope it could alter the Culture of Soldiers feeling so helpless that they would KILL THEMSEVES!
The very idea that a Royal Commission will somehow fix the institutionalised attitude of "You'll be alright Digger... Toughen up!" and "Get up, get going!" and, dare I say "Don't Stop, Don't worry about the wounded! Keep going!!" as taught by the Army [ADF!] ... combined with the method of 'If you report in sick, you are weak and soft.' ... is purely asinine!
When those on Medical Restrictions, in my time ['83-'03] were often thought of as ... somewhere between Broken or Malingerers, is continued... A Royal Commission will change Naught!
I had a VG digger, my driver, who went on to receive a Distinguished Conduct Medal... that was called "Chitty" because he had a 'chit' for light duties, at one stage... One of many Excellent Soldiers that taught me while I was in charge.
My point... is ...It is very hard to change an opinion, even harder by magnitude, to change a culture! ... Which has been the nature of humans, throughout history....
Oh! ...and I should post here more often.
What say you?