[stuartj]

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

Thanks for telling me about ANZAC day. I knew there was a reason I got up early and marched with my "mates"...

I didnt tell you about ANZAC Day, I simply mentioned it happened to be yesterday.

As far as the atrocities committed by the Light Horse. Well lets leave that one to history. There's a lot more to that story than is written on "Wikipedia".

More than Wikipedia you say? We'll just have to wait for the Peter Fitzsimmons book. It happened in 1918, when can we talk about it?

I will say that in my experience professional soldiers are just that, professional.
They get the horrible job done as efficiently as possible.

Neither the Light Horse of 1918 or most of the characters being portrayed in the The Pacific circa 1943 were, by and large, professional soldiers.

ffs