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Speaker 2: Now good a buck? Are you going very good?
Speaker 3: Thank you? Hey?
Speaker 2: How was the howd the Dawn Service go this morning?
Speaker 3: It was beautiful? Yeah? Lovely? Yeah, and I finished off
Speaker 3: with a beautiful hucker in front of all the crosses. Yeah. Done. Well.
Speaker 2: There's been some big losses in the past twelve months.
Speaker 2: We had Sir Bomb otherwise known as Robert Gillies, has
Speaker 2: passed away. Does do those events sort of what do
Speaker 2: they do? They add an extra poignant seat to the occasion.
Speaker 3: Well, Uncle Bomb, Yeah, well, you know I knew him
Speaker 3: quite well because I'm from roder as well. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: he spent most of his life there with his family
Speaker 3: and you know, knowing his history and things like that.
Speaker 3: You know, it's one of these things that they're all
Speaker 3: slowly but surely passing away, and you know, we're Bomb
Speaker 3: was Stroy, the was the the monive Galant and it's
Speaker 3: really sad, but everyone's going to go at some stage,
Speaker 3: and you know, as they're coming to these things here,
Speaker 3: it just makes you remember all the mates that that
Speaker 3: you have lost on the way, what do.
Speaker 2: You make of the government's announcements in recent weeks around
Speaker 2: the definitions and adjusting the ANZAC act.
Speaker 3: Well, I think that you know, looking trying to actually
Speaker 3: define the role of a well, what the when you
Speaker 3: when you can be called class itself as a veteran.
Speaker 3: You know, it's it's been piecemeal over the years, and
Speaker 3: some have said that, you know, it's when you actually
Speaker 3: a test when you first join the military and you
Speaker 3: sign the piece of paper. And now they've actually put
Speaker 3: a bit of a stake in the ground and said it.
Speaker 3: You know, you're going to be getting your first medal
Speaker 3: because of your service medal three years at least they've
Speaker 3: actually said that. And all of the ones that haven't
Speaker 3: cooked classed themselves as veterans can now class house themselves
Speaker 3: as a veterans because they've all got that medal. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and so it's quite different to an operational medal. And yeah,
Speaker 3: so it's quite different altogether. But you know, why do
Speaker 3: you get past that three year mark? You know, you
Speaker 3: can class yourself as a veteran and a lot of
Speaker 3: people didn't class themselves as difference, but it's in ink
Speaker 3: now and something is But we're still there to try
Speaker 3: and actually try and actually that's the first stage and
Speaker 3: we want to move on to the next stage and
Speaker 3: trying to get better things for the servicemen as well
Speaker 3: as well as the veterans as well the old old
Speaker 3: guys in the RSA.
Speaker 2: What are your own personal thoughts when you were at
Speaker 2: one of these services.
Speaker 3: Well, I think about my father uncle, because my dad
Speaker 3: was a sycamore war he was in he was in
Speaker 3: j Force Money Battalion and as he was flying up
Speaker 3: to Europe to join up with the battalion to any battalion,
Speaker 3: they got detailed because the bombs went off in Hashima
Speaker 3: and Naga Sat and so he went up there for
Speaker 3: eighteen months and how clean up? Yeah, so he turned
Speaker 3: around to that My uncle, who named me when I
Speaker 3: was a young guy, was basically he was in Korea
Speaker 3: and he was up there for quite a while. And uh,
Speaker 3: you know they've both gone now, my dad and my uncle.
Speaker 3: So you think about the people that you didn't know
Speaker 3: when you were young and that've all gone now. And
Speaker 3: they were all military. Yeah, it does, said, yeah, but
Speaker 3: not understanding that. You you know, you've got a box
Speaker 3: on and and commemorate their you know, their lives.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, what they do.
Speaker 3: You know, we keep telling our kids, you know, like
Speaker 3: our kids, my kids, now this is your great uncle,
Speaker 3: this is your great quddul, you know, things like that,
Speaker 3: so they know that these guys went to war and
Speaker 3: they gave us their lives, you know, for for New Zealand. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate you sharing that with us, But thanks
Speaker 2: so much for your time this morning, and we'll have
Speaker 2: to chatting again sometime soon.
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