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Carefully attend to them and they can heal to scars that over the years we can touch and remember and they become part of who we are. The human way to deal with grief has been to create rituals and ceremonies to honour the loss and celebrate life. Different cultures do this in a variety of ways, but there are important similarities.

The essential elements are Containment , Connection and Submission. Containment is the provision of a safe environment for the victims of the loss.

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In tangihanga, it is the marae, the wharenui and whanau who gather around immediate family to provide aroha and awhi. Support of family, friends or counsellors and ministers can also provide this containment.

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Connection with others helps to share the burden of grief and loss and to limit loneliness and isolation. It can provide safety in times of hopelessness and despair and help us to maintain the essential daily routines of living and caring for ourselves.

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Submission to the process means allowing ourselves to connect deeply with the loss, discover and express our feelings about it and to acknowledge how much we valued what we no longer have. This is an essential step to creating the inner space needed to allow in the new in our lives and to move on. Think back to your service days. Did you not submit to the process of a selection course, engaging fully in the hardships and discomfort in order to achieve something?

Did you not submit to the conventions and disciplines of military life to achieve something?

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Submission to grief also requires courage and commitment and the rewards are growth , maturity , and inner peace. My hope is that these few words help you to reflect on your own grief and give you confidence to support others in their way back to health. This article was originally written for, and was published in a Regimental Association Journal for serving members, ex-service personnel, and their families.

Martin Knight-Willis is a retired psychotherapist. The fighting scenes are pretty good for a Hollywood movie — the Seals are remarkably accurate shooters. In reality, if you get shot, you're not usually in a condition to continue. I suppose some people would find these scenes off-putting. It depends on your perspective.


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The opening scenes of Saving Private Ryan are routinely used by military recruiters to show how exciting soldiering is. The film uses footage of the men in the real-life Seals mission.


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Some critics have called this crass , but I disagree. If any recent film is crass, it's Black Hawk Down: Lone Survivor is both more nuanced and more realistic. The confidential inquiry also warns that Australia's national security is being damaged by "major gaps in knowledge" across government about the capability and culture of Special Operations Command, and poor coordination between its two key units, the Special Air Service Regiment and the Commandos.

Apart from overseas deployments, special forces are also available for domestic counter-terrorism response when called out by state and territory police forces. The inquiry was conducted by defence department consultant Dr Samantha Crompvoets. It gives the clearest indication yet of the biggest scandal to face the Australian military in years.


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  8. Allegations of war crimes are the subject of an investigation by New South Wales judge Paul Brereton into the activities of Australia's special forces in Afghanistan between and The Brereton investigation was prompted by the Crompvoets report. Previous efforts to obtain the Crompvoets' report under Freedom Of Information laws have been blocked.