NZ Christchurch, page-97

Mate, how old are you and do you have any ties to realism, do you have any family you can talk to about the reality of war. I don’t think so.

We sit here and imagine what it was like, my grandfather was a pathfinder, and his stories were told ina book. Bury your mates day after day and keep going out and doing your job, that was life in the war.

I suppose at my age I was lucky to hear the stories, and even luckier to not be involved. Any of you kids with no direct correlation get a fricken grip.