09-10-2022, 08:15 AM
(09-10-2022, 08:04 AM)DJC link Wrote:As an ex-serviceman, nothing annoys me more than "they fought for the Queen". QE2's reign started in 1952 and those who served in Korea, Vietnam, Malaya, Iraq, and Afghanistan weren't there for the Queen. They were there because politicians decided that sending our young folk off to fight in other countries was the right thing to do. I didn't serve the Queen, I served because a bloke whose brother captained Essendon pulled a marble out of a bag and it had my birthday on it.
Paying respect to a dead foreign monarch at the same time as paying respect to Indigenous Australians doesn't work, particularly when that monarch's predecessors oversaw and profited from colonisation.
Completely agree.