Urozgan

yeah

And, yeah, I don't really care what people think about that because I don't want to be opening my front door and thinking I'm back in Afghanistan with the call to prayer blasting over the speakers like they do in Uruzgan province in Tarankow.

It's like, hey, this is Australia, buddy.

We don't do that stuff here.

Yes

... and the wife and kids are, what, back in Uruzgan Province?

We can't tell you where they are.

There's, uh, uh, there's no doubt that this program will actually go back to, to Taliban intelligence in Afghanistan at some point.

Something the Air Force pilot who was interviewed on the Coast to Coast AM program more or less stated, even if you have never believed in something like giants, when you suddenly find yourself looking at one, You can't really do much else but just accept the facts.

The Australian officer writes, I was an LT in the Australian Army at the time and deployed to the Uruzgan province.

I was on picket, what you Yanks would call security or sentry, in my LAV in the early hours one morning and was scanning across the valley with the thermal imager.

That was when I saw a large human-like figure that looked different from normal because it didn't have the usual clothes the Afghans would wear.

I think the one thing that has hurt most to our friends is this idea that when he said that our allies were fighting from the back.

I'm in the Netherlands right now, another country that suffered a large number of people fighting in Uruzgan.

The Brits did, but everyone did.

Every single country came with us and every single country paid in treasure and in lives at a cost that was for the security not of them, but of the United States.

So God call your mother Call your old man on that welfare line Tell him you love him while you still can Cause all good things must die Soldiers sing A sapper's lullaby You give it your all No one if you should fall But all good things must end All good things must end

I guess the song Dust of Uruzgan is the best known song from the songs I wrote about Afghanistan.

It's a song that came to me in stages.

To start with, I grew up listening to Vogel's band played Waltzing Matilda and put a kind of template in my head for how a song about a soldier's experience might be written.

Every time you thought you'd grasped what was happening, it turned out there was something else going on.

And everything was just a little bit dysfunctional.

I thought, I want to write a song called Dust of Uruzgan.

But I didn't have a pair of eyes to see the situation through.