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One of my favorite movies is "Breaker Morant." How well known, and thought of is he in Australia? Captdavid "It's not how hard you hit 'em, it's where you hit 'em." The 30-06 will, with the right bullet, successfully take any game animal in North America up to 300yds. Get closer! | ||
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People these days wouldn't even know of him. I doubt kids these days would know about the Boar war. ------------------------------ A mate of mine has just told me he's shagging his girlfriend and her twin. I said "How can you tell them apart?" He said "Her brother's got a moustache!" | |||
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What about the Boer war Bakes? That one as well TP  Sorry for jumping on your post TP. I hit the edit button instead of quote  "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." Sir Winston Churchill | |||
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Don't be a bore James. Frank "I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money." - Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953 NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite | |||
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Don't say that to Hendrik Frank  "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." Sir Winston Churchill | |||
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Like Ned Kelly, he tends to be a divisive character, but possibly not well known to younger people who haven't seen the movie. To some eyes he was a free spirit who did what he had to do and was victimised by hypocritical commanders. To others he was a war criminal who killed innocent civilians. | |||
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Unlike the British? Who invented concentration camps and killed many civilians in the Boer wars..... DRSS | |||
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If he were a German soldier shooting prisoners in WW2, I reckon a lot of Australians would take a dimmer view. I read an account of an RAAF airman who snapped a little German girl's neck when she played too close to where he was hiding in the forest after escaping. His mates were horrified. He got killed some days or weeks later, so I guess his name's on the Honour Wall. Proud to be Australian, love my country, but being born here doesn't automatically make you a Saint. | |||
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Harry Morant was a POM I believe. ------------------------------ A mate of mine has just told me he's shagging his girlfriend and her twin. I said "How can you tell them apart?" He said "Her brother's got a moustache!" | |||
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Originally Bakes. Was a drover here IIRC when he signed up. DRSS | |||
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Just a murderous pom whose trial was used for political ends by Australians at the time. Anyone is automatically claimed as an Australian if a; you get famous b; they have a use for you. | |||
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Phar Lap, Russel Crowe.... DRSS | |||
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You can have Russel Crowe back  ------------------------------ A mate of mine has just told me he's shagging his girlfriend and her twin. I said "How can you tell them apart?" He said "Her brother's got a moustache!" | |||
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no - he is yours for keeps now ________________________ Old enough to know better | |||
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