got a couple of poppies on the weekend at the supermarket - from a bloke with a lot of medals pinned to his chest - served in Timor Leste and Afghanistan - really humble bloke would have loved to talk more but there were others wanting poppies. I felt privileged to talk a bit with him.




a maori gunner laying dying in a paddy field north of saigon and he said to his pakeha cobber...