I wasn’t with you. The first in 3/4 generations who didn’t get to serve, but I did apply in 1982/3; before circumstance meant I had to alter my path for personal safety. My respect is absolute. I am grateful, I am proud and I am mindful how our brothers and sisters who stood are treated, worldwide but most of all, by the country that signed them up, expected the ultimate of them and by their decrees if not ours as citizens – sent them to war.