Yep. That one. The ones that know their Great Grandfather thought long and hard before he left his farm in Rai Valley and went off with doubt but belief to Gallipoli and then the Western Front, who left one brother at Cape Helles and another permanently damaged. The ones whose Great Uncles and Grandfathers were drafted to return to Africa, and the Pacific, and subsequently K force. The ones whose parents lived through and adapted to the very difficult economic changes of the 80's and early 90's. The ones whose previous generation have elected various Governments that have tried to do the right things in respect to Treaty of Waitangi obligations.
So this generation are "of us" and all those who have gone before and this gives me the confidence to believe in them.
Certain elements of mankind have always been susceptible to "false prophets" and there is no lack of both the prophets and their victims today.
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