Diggers

Why is war constantly glorified? Describing two people killed by a roadside bomb as "brothers in arms" does not change the fact that two men had their bodies ripped apart and endured painful deaths.
No one cares about nationhood when they're lying in the dirt dying. Your last thoughts will not be of our great country and waltzing Matilda.
Private Grant Kirby, a 35-year-old father of two girls from Brisbane, and 21-year-old Private Tomas Dale were the 19th and 20th Australians to die in Afghanistan.
According to "Operation Enduring Freedom" there have been 1,912 coalition deaths in Afghanistan since 2001.
http://icasualties.org/OEF/Nationality.aspx
These are not necessary deaths. Yet politicians are still determined to "see the mission through".