THEY WANT TO CHANGE OUR FLAG

[heyu]

Found this in a folder, author is Anon
used to be a 'Digger', probably now gone
proud to risk his life and limb for the Country that he loved
Bet he still flys it proudly in the good place up above.


THEY WANT TO CHANGE OUR FLAG

They want to change our flag he said, with sad and misty eyes
the flag I fought so proudly for as I saw my cobbers die
We bore that flag to battle as we marched to make a stand
to stem the tide of terror and keep freedom for our land.

Why would they want to change our flag of red and white and blue
a flag that means so many things to blokes like me and you?
It's part of our great heritage, a link with ages past
and I feel both proud and humble, as it flutters from the mast.

That flag was borne so proudly by the famous desert rats
it was with us in the jungle as we fought the stubborn Japs
It bears the blood of Anzacs, who all loved it to a man
and travelled to Korea and the hell of Vietnam.

"Who are these folk?" the old chap said, "Why aren't they satisfied?
Why don't they love the Aussie flag, why don't the feel some pride?
They cannot be Australian, they can't be Aussies sons
they must be folk from somewhere else, who speak in foreign tongues."

"Who won the war?" he softly said "Did our boys all die in vain?"
And he looked at me bewildered while his face was lined with pain.
Then I watched that frail old Digger as he shuffled on his way
and my voice filled with emotion as I bade to him "Good day".

So I loathe the knockers of our flag, their motives I despise.
Our present flag's the only one I'll ever recognise.

                                                             Anon


heyu

[therese]

EXACTLY!   i wonder why they can't just leave it be.  it cost has been to dear to just drop it be the wayside.

[zondrae]

Here, here.

I have studied other flags and can't find in them, the same symbolism as our flag has. It shows the Southern Cross that glows above us every night and the Union Jack, a symbol of the founders of our present civilization. While I don't think for a moment that the displacement of the original people was right, it has happened everywhere on earth. Would these modern thinkers also change the name of our blessed land?

[therese]

oh surely they wouldn't try that!  im sure that would have a lot of opposition.

[jim tonkin]

Maybe Johnny would rather replace the Union Jack with the American flag

[r. magnay]

better that than live (if we are lucky) under a flag we get no say in!