On recent ANZAC parades in the deep south I was appalled at the conduct of mindless fools who organised  indigenous veterans to march separately from their comrades beneath an indigenous flag.

It was a deliberate act of unjustified political correctness to flout well established protocol and thus threaten the very core of the military ethos by sacrificing established unity for questionable diversity.

Unity in the military forces implies  “all for one and one for all”  Sharing and caring for each other no matter race or colour. Be it the heavy loads, sentry duty, the inevitable dangers and that last spoonful of food or the last of the water.  So often caring for a mate down with fever or a cobber who had just received sad news from home.

All our fallen and those comrades since gone, no matter race, colour or religion have the same status. They were and always will be brothers.

The RSL and its sub-branches should revisit the past and think again on the urgent need to protect ANZAC  protocol  from mindless politically correct agitators hell bent on destroying our proud values.

George Mansford