Have a read of this. Proud to be an Aussie.

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Originally Posted by GCFordChic

Thats a selfish thing to say. You havent stated what your job is, so perhaps it too deserves 'applause', but you are devaluing the contribution of those who are in the Armed Forces. Are you truly equating your job to those of active servicemen who seriously put their life on the line every day? :

As the younger sister of a RAN Officer, i can only wish the general community supported the men and women in the military, whether they support the conflicts/missions they are involved in or not.

Why is anything the armed forces do of value? It's not really, in fact it is probably the least value adding career/job in our economy. They suck billions to "protect" Australia by supporting USA in the middle east etc. The stuff they do closer to home (East Timor, PNG, Fiji etc) is at least close enough to be called protection, or at least keeping the peace in our region. And most of those in the military are not there because they are patriotic, they are there because it's a job or career they chose. It's not like plumbers love 5 h ! t, they just get paid a lot to install/fix toilets and pipes.