Thankyou. I will be at the parade in Ipswich (town closest to RAAF Amberley, our largest Australian Airforce base) when they welcome home the Iraqui Aircraft controllers and other crew in October... to be followed by an Amberley Air Show.
The last Amberley Air Show was scheduled for October 2001, but as soon as those towers fell I knew it was all off.
As a member of an airforce family in an airforce town, I'll be there, and be giving my thanks to the many who have fought in both wars since 9/11...
"The last Amberley Air Show was scheduled for October 2001, but as soon as those towers fell I knew it was all off."
One of these days we will get our normalcy back. It will be down the road...but we will.
When I was 10, my father showed me an Australian Airforce hat pin he had traded from an Aussie pilot during World War II in Egypt. My dad was serving with the Free Greek Airforce and remembers getting drunk with the Aussie and the two of them beating up a British Army MP. Apparently it was the thing to do when on leave by the allies. Go figure...
take care