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My Father (VN 71-72) always remarked about the butterflies.
He was amazed how these things could fly. Apparently they didn’t really fly they just kinda flopped around the air cos they where so big.
In one story his Plt was approaching a suspected VC encampment after it had been shelled and everything was deathly quite, but there where these big butterflies everywhere.
"It was the weirdest thing" he said "Surreal"
He brought a display box home of some of them – these things are huge – always used to just stare at them as a little cub, thinking VN must have been like Gulliver’s-Travels-Land or something.
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"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks."
-- Phillip Brooks
"A man's reach should exceed his grasp"
-- Robert Browning
"Hooah! Pushing thru the shit til Daisies grow, Sir"
-- Me
"Malo mori quam foedari"
"Death before Dishonour"
-- Family Coat-of-Arms Maxim
"Mārohirohi! Kia Kaha!"
"Be strong! Drive-on!"
-- Māori saying
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