My father , known to his mates as Rick Fox, faced Japanese bullets in the last major battle of Word War Two and saw his friends die on the beach at Balikpapan in July 1945. They did this for freedom. His father before him, Arthur Clampett Fox, was, as oral family history leads me to believe, one of the first people in Australia to speak up against Hitler's mistreatment of the Jews in the 1930's. My mum's dad, Ralph Blanchard, campaigned strongly for the united Nations as an answer to totalitarianism in the aftermath of World War Two. When I...