Saturday 1 September 2012

Sergeant Sardoni, 1972

"Margaret and John, Grindlewald, Suisse, Nov 72"
Thanks goodness for your careful labelling, Sal! This has the place and time on the back written by you (as above).  And it deserves this special one-off posting, as everyone loves this photo!
Dad was doing his impression of the Staff Sergeant that drill-trained him in the Army, before he headed off to the war in Papua New Guinea....  Where, btw, he was shot at, and hence was entitled to gold-card Vet treatment thereafter, which Mutti inherited on his death.
I reckon that's a measure of an enlightened and civilised society: that it treats its Vets well.  (whatever one might think of the rights or wrongs of the war in question...)