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Always, Without Sale
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Another annual Weekend Away was fast approaching its conclusion, but there was somewhere we all wanted to go before bid farewell to Sale and headed off in our respective directions: the Gippsland Armed Forces Museum. Packing up our things, we made our way off to get petrol and check the air in the tyres while the older faction of the group made their way to the Visitor Centre to purchase a bottle of local wine. After all, it’s not a weekend away without wine to drink the following year.
Eventually, we all made it to the museum, bundling out of the car and tottering over to admire the old Air Force jets retired to the carpark out the front. There is something about their cramped innards that gives them an almost coffin-like vibe. As I looked at the stencilled words ‘Death From Above’ spray painted on the tail of one, I couldn’t help but wonder who that death was more likely for: those inside these aircraft, or the ones they were battling.