<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/99e53acc-e5ee-43d8-ba38-1f7b652dd367/73CD4204-8AAE-491F-B608-4A1235497386/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory06.htm" href="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory06.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">nenews.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nenews.com.au/Stories/chStory06.htm"><FONT size="2" face="MS Sans Serif"> Written by <B>HARVEY DIKE</B>.</FONT> <P>CORPORAL Luke Threlfall will soon leave for a six month tour of duty in Iraq, but his Wangaratta family have mixed feelings about their son’s November departure.</p> <P>Luke is a driver in the 6th Royal Australian Regiment, and has already been in East Timor on a three month tour in that troubled country.</p> <P>"<B>He loves Army life,</B>" said his father Graeme from their Templeton Street home.</p> <P>"<B>He is really keen to go to Iraq, and while I am a little apprehensive about his safety, I have confidence that his training and his common sense will enable him to come through challenging times.</B></p> <P><B>"<B>He’s big enough to look after himself,</B>" said Graeme, who has been an Army cadet captain in Wangaratta for six years.</B></p> <P><B>However, Glenda Threlfall admits to feeling quite concerned for her son’s welfare, especially after the death earlier this week of an Australian soldier serving in Afghanistan.</B></p> <P><B>"<B>I got quite upset at that news, and feel huge sympathy for his family,</B>" she said.</B></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/73CD4204-8AAE-491F-B608-4A1235497386/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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