Diggers in Iraq - Oz Gov Army Photo
We call our Australian Soldiers ‘Diggers’.
It’s a nickname they gave themselves during WWI,
(ostensibly recalling a handle given gold miners in the mid 1800’s)
when the soldiers found themselves digging trenches.
Someone, in a moment of attempted bloke humour no doubt,
evidently remembered the name and gave it a shout out. Australian soldiers have been fondly called ‘Diggers’ ever since.
American soldiers have had Diggers by their side during two world wars,
the Korean war, the Vietnam war and the Gulf war.
Diggers are currently serving in Afghanistan and Iraq.
We are there by invitation.
Yours.
So you see Linda Kozak from Alaska
what happens in the United States
especially politically
is very much my business.
Actually, what happens on this planet is very much my business
and I will not be told to sit quietly in the corner while avarice-oriented people deplete it’s resources or bilk it’s citizens.
I want my great grandchildren to have plenty of green trees.
I want my great great grandchildren to know what a tree is without needing
to google an image.
I want pollies like Sarah Palin to stop looking at publicly-elected jobs
as free rides full of free goodies and actually look at the job description
before putting their hand up.
I want pollies like your governor to stop taking government money
for building roads that go nowhere
from taxpayer-driven federal funds which might have instead been used
to build a new school or hospital or help save yet another animal put on the endangered species list by some ignorant beaurocrat who thought putting petrol in his SUV
was more important than the long-term health of our environment.
This is my planet too
Linda Kozak from Alaska
and if my involvement makes you uncomfortable
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feel free to move.
Oz Mudflats 