AN EXPENSIVE EDUCATION

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30937, 18 December 1965, Page 14

AN EXPENSIVE EDUCATION

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•a. H ai unlikely that the cadets would tea a «... in their lifetime, “we may have troubles of a minne and some annoying one* like present «niMte B in Vietnam’ New Zealand soldiers to go to these trouble W’.F’bUc "• not •• mforortod ta you 1? they should ho ... It a major war did develop . . such an Army, however keen and courageous, will make an** awful ■••• ~ n . !h e *”* ~w years of its war, etc., etc—Main r ug“;^^’‘fc.^^ r w^lo B u ,^ 0’,c10u,,, o ’ ,clou,,, • to When a Soldier speaks of War," He speaks of What he knows; He knows a great Deal more About It, I suppose, Than the Public, the Civilians, Who seek no "Trouble Spot’— Non-military Millions Who’ve never heard a Shot I’m sure the Solder’s right The Public is at Fault, — Some spoiling for a Fight, And Others crying Halt! He calls Vietnam ’annoying*— Let’s call a Spade a Spade! Our Army needs Employing, A Chance to learn its Trade. The Soldier needs no less Expensive Education. Sir, not in Captiousness, Still less in Indignation, I raise the Question, merely. For Whom it may concern— Innocent Blood pays dearly, That he who lives may leant In such a ’minor* War— Or an ‘annoying One’— Death can’t be Less, or More A Sin against the Sun. Death is always ‘major’, As even the Public knows: But the Soldier, the old Stager, Knows better, I suppose?