Comments on: ‘Mateship’ http://camharris.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/mateship/ Stick up your fists and write like a man. Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:44:06 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Don http://camharris.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/mateship/#comment-55 Don Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:11:35 +0000 http://camharris.wordpress.com/?p=56#comment-55 I agree that the word 'mate' is not used correctly today, but when I hear about 'mateship', my mind immediately goes back to my Grandpa being carried on the shoulders of a 'mate' through a battlefield in WWII. I also think about my other Grandpa (who probably new yours), working with 5 or 6 'mates', building each other's houses in Australia's southwest as they tried to make a go of it in the Aussie bush... and about working with a 'mate' on the other end of a long bow saw cutting huge trees in the Pemberton forrest. These ideas of 'mateship' are almost completely lost - but I believe they should be remembered and cultivated. They speak of going through hardship together and standing by each other no matter what is thrown at you. I agree that the word ‘mate’ is not used correctly today, but when I hear about ‘mateship’, my mind immediately goes back to my Grandpa being carried on the shoulders of a ‘mate’ through a battlefield in WWII. I also think about my other Grandpa (who probably new yours), working with 5 or 6 ‘mates’, building each other’s houses in Australia’s southwest as they tried to make a go of it in the Aussie bush… and about working with a ‘mate’ on the other end of a long bow saw cutting huge trees in the Pemberton forrest.

These ideas of ‘mateship’ are almost completely lost – but I believe they should be remembered and cultivated. They speak of going through hardship together and standing by each other no matter what is thrown at you.

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