Here's a quote from a government employee who witnessed a recent
interaction between an elderly woman and an antiwar protester in a train
station in Sydney

There were protesters on the train platform handing out pamphlets on the evils of Australia. I politely declined to take one.

An elderly woman was behind me getting off the escalator and a young
(20ish) female protester offered her a pamphlet, which she politely
declined.

The young protester put her hand on the old woman's shoulder as a
gesture of friendship and in a very soft voice said, "Lady, don't you
care about the children of Iraq?"

The old woman looked up at her and said, "Honey, my father died in
France during World War II, I lost my husband in Korea, and a son in
Vietnam. All three died so you could have the right to stand here and
bad mouth our country. If you touch me again. I'll stick this umbrella
up your #### and open it."

God Bless Australia!!