点评:We are husband/wife serving veterans with 53 years military service with operational service and 11 medals between us. We arrived at this RSL after a long day of travelling from Canberra. We attended an ANZAC March and ceremony in Boorowa in the morning where we were made most welcome by the hundreds of locals, even invited to have lunch with them which we declined.
We arrived at Nyngan RSL for an evening meal and, as we have always done offered to show ID/ veterans cards whereupon we have ALWAYS been given the non member discount and sometimes even a free meal.. This discount was asked for at this RSL and was flatly refused with the attendant saying ‘ no love we don’t do that here’. We are talking about a $2 good will discount per person here, nothing more. As I was very tired after a 700km I became a tad upset and reminded her that everyone in the jam packed club at that moment had supposedly had the day off to remember and reflect what not only the ANZACS endured 108 years ago but also what other servicemen/ women also have and are currently have enduring for this great country .
LEST WE FORGET had no meaning whatsoever to this club. It is purely a profit making club (unlike any other other we’ve visited around Australia) that does not understand or care to understand what the flag pole outside their door represents. Will never dine there again.
On a positive note the meal albeit taking an hour was hot, plentiful and tasty.
翻译:我们是服役 53 年兵役的退伍军人夫妻,我们之间有 11 枚勋章。在从堪培拉旅行一整天后,我们到达了这个 RSL。早上我们在 Boorowa 参加了 ANZAC March 和仪式,受到数百名当地人的热烈欢迎,甚至被邀请与他们共进午餐,但我们拒绝了。
我们到达 Nyngan RSL 吃晚餐,正如我们一直所做的那样,提供出示身份证/退伍军人卡,因此我们总是获得非会员折扣,有时甚至是免费餐点。此 RSL 要求提供此折扣,并且被服务员断然拒绝说'不,我们不在这里这样做'。我们在这里谈论的是每人 2 美元的商品折扣,仅此而已。在 700 公里后我感到非常疲倦,我变得有点不高兴,并提醒她当时拥挤的俱乐部里的每个人都应该放假一天来记住和反思不仅 ANZACS 在 108 年前所经历的一切,还有其他军人所经历的一切/ 女人也曾经并且现在正在为这个伟大的国家而忍耐。
唯恐我们忘记对这个俱乐部没有任何意义。这纯粹是一个营利俱乐部(不像我们在澳大利亚访问过的任何其他俱乐部),它不理解或不关心理解他们门外的旗杆代表什么。永远不会再在那里用餐。
从积极的方面来说,这顿饭虽然要花一个小时,但还是热的、量大的、美味的。