It s way too late to write this but I have a late start tomorrow You must NEVER allow people to disparage you for having served What you did is a source of pride and self respect You must always remember this Years ago I lived up in BKK and my very best friend Australian ex special forces trained some of you guys out in Cambodia He always commented on how good you were My friend was eventually shot dead outside his house in BKK back in 2001 That changed my life But I ll tell you a story that happened in the late 90 s My friend and I did a mission in Burma and after a series of events which I won t describe ended up in a remote village in the middle of nowhere The village was tiny and tethered to a pole next to a teak tree was a strange looking pig But it wasn t a pig nor was it a cow It was the oddest looking animal we d ever seen And then my friend worked it out the animal was a Javan rhinoceros True story