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| Australian Army Phil is married and has two boys. He served in the Australian Army for fifteen and a half years in two Corps. His first 6 years was with the RAAC with whom he served in South Vietnam from 28th January 1970 to 4th February 1971. He got hit with a command detonated mine in the Long Hais on the 23rd March 1970. The other nine and a half years of his time was spent in RAEME where he trained and became a qualified Vehicle Mechanic. After his discharge in 1984, he worked as a mechanic for two years and then as a Correctional Officer for nine years. After leaving there, he stayed home and looked after his wife who suffers from chronic back pain due to disc problems. During that time he began to experience symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), so he applied for and got TPI and now considers himself a gentleman of leisure who is trying to get his head around the internet. Phil has also written a book of poetry and is in the process of getting it published. Once he has all the details of cost, etc., he'll post them on the web for anybody to order if they're interested. The book is titled "A little piece of me."
Phillip "Fearless" Kadow
We Shall Not Forget Them.
All was quiet on the home front At the beginning of 1899 When word of the Boer uprising Came crackling down the line
Queensland put its hand up Followed by the other eastern states And together they sent a message to Britain We'll be there with you mates
That war hardly seemed to finish When the Huns began to roar And attacked a peaceful country Then declared an all out war
England was in dire straits Once again their lines were thin So we put our hands up once again To help quieten another din
Again the world seemed to be at peace At least for twenty years Until the Huns started up again And our hearts were filled with fear
Again our sons and daughters Went over to lend a hand And support old Mother England And show unity with a strong stand
Again peace was to last for us Only but a few short years Before our troops were again committed To action in Korea
After that there was Malaya Borneo and South Vietnam As well as the contingent in the Gulf Helping to keep Kuwait a free land
To all our Peacekeeping Forces We also must give our thanks For doing their job unwittingly Against such things as tanks
To East Timor just to our north Just a stone throw from our shore We sent our troops to do a job Of protecting the oppressed and the poor
Now last of all we say thank you To our troops of then and now For making the ultimate sacrifice So the future generation will know
That whenever some one asks you If you can lend a hand You'll remember what our diggers said "Of course we Bloody can." Copyright © 2001 Phil Kadow. More Poems
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