Season’s Greetings

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This blog wishes to extend to all readers our best wishes for a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

And what, you may ask, is with the postal theme...? Well, it serves as a general reminder of absent friends, and nicely leads into the following image that I kind of liked...

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(L to R) Major Michael Webster, Warrant Officer Class 2 Kevin Brown, Corporal Barry Barber, and Warrant Officer Class 2 Andrew Major read Christmas cards sent to them by children from the Good Shepherd Lutheran School of Palmerston, Northern Territory.

I love the faces of these soldiers, in repose against a setting of conflict, for whom the ‘magic’ of Christmas yet prevails.

Whatever the merits or otherwise regarding Australia’s involvement in Iraq, we may take pride in our people in the Australian Defence Forces, who are among the most professional, disciplined and enlightened in the world today.

Our thoughts are with our ADF men and women this Festive Season, with our wishes for a successful mission and safe return home.