The Gap RSL Sub Branch

Steve Froggatt

Bathroom Renovation Specialists

• All work completed by Qualified Tradesmen • 40 Years Experience Ph: 3863 3089 or 0402 730 177

QBCC Lic No. 1177107

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The Gap RSL Sub-branch Inc

An open letter from David Esler, President of The Gap Sub-Branch RSL himself a three-time Veteran in Afghanistan to Fellow Members of the ADF who also served in Afghanistan

The evolving situation in Afghanistan may give cause for many of us to question our involvement in Australia’s longest war.

For a moment in time we stood shoulder to shoulder with our mates in the service of something greater than us. This service may be different for each of us. For you it may have been about freedom or democracy or freeing the world of a totalitarian regime, it may have even been about adventure or perhaps the highest of callings, that being fighting for your mates. Over this war we’ve lost life and limb overseas and at home. We’ve suffered and struggled, laughed, sworn and cried.

The bill has been paid in blood and treasure.

While there is the temptation to lament on that bill, it’s important to acknowledge we also contributed to the reduction and suppression of an evil medieval philosophy and we enhanced, even if it was for a short time, the freedoms of a country that has long been under the yoke of religious extremism.

For us, we’ll never forget our brothers and sisters who stood proud and answered their call to service. Equally, we’ll never forget how for that fleeting moment, we stood fast alongside our mates against an evil ideology and said “No”.

We WILL Remember Them Lest We Forget