Claude McDermott talks about his son Shannon’s service in the army in East Timor, Afghanistan and Iraq. Claude discusses his son’s entry into the army and service in recent conflicts, the skills the army gave him, and the continuing impacts of this service on his son and his family, and those mates he served with.

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