A great country nevertheless and noted your not judging rebels and prisoners for what they produced as a distinct society admired throughout the world. Militarily they have few peers in fighting prowess.
Their airmen were in our home in Saskatchewan, training under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, and the first song I learned every word was the catchy Waltzing Matilda.
One of my father's students seemed a god to me, a boxer from Melbourne, who palled later with my father overseas until blown to bits over Germany. Their notion of fun was to track down H.G. Wells in London.
Rancorous is Aussie's first name.
