The two common questions were: "We know who Noel Park was, but who was Charles from Boggabri?" and "Why Crete?"

In researching the article I had help from a number of people. One was Edette Sevil, Noel's daughter from Willow Tree who supplied the photos. Another was Bob Chapman, who recently stepped down as a hard working president of the Tamworth Branch of the RSL and a veteran himself. Charles was his father.

Incidentally Charles' brother survived a full tour of duty as a Tail Gunner in Bomber Command, statistically the most dangerous role during the war.

"Why Crete?" From my long ago New Zealand childhood.

In 1939, its population was 1.6 million. Every family had a soldier in one of three places - Crete, El Alamein or Monte Cassino in Italy.

Many of them are buried there. So in the 1940s and 50s we all knew the stories of these three battles. The Australian equivalent would probably be Tobruk, Singapore and Kokada.

Bruce Stewart, Tamworth

Anti-vaxxers, alternative health practitioners and conspiracy theories have been warning people for decades that the World Health Organisation (WHO) is corrupt. Yet, instead of doing the mature thing and admitting they were right all along (about that anyway), I see a media beat up of anti-vaxxers.

While I admit that some of what anti-vaxxers say is going to the 'too far extremes', we should be mature enough to admit that they were right about the WHO being an untrustworthy organisation. Credit where credit is due, they knew long before the rest of us, and we didn't listen.

Yesterday's crazy conspiracy theory is today's obvious truth. Now we have all seen how the WHO has mismanaged the coronavirus and been China's mouthpiece. Let's not forget, some people knew all along that the WHO was not to be trusted, but we dismissed them.

Daniel Peckham, Tamworth

We've always felt there was a way to help in a crisis. We believe that if we were at the scene of an accident that we would run into the fire to rescue the victims.

Maybe it's Hollywood's fault, we all want to be Bruce Willis. So imagine the shock and surprise, when the whole world is threatened by a simple virus, that can kill indiscriminately.

Sure, those that are already unwell are at high risk, but it can also be deadly to perfectly healthy people. There's no fire to run into, no exploding building or comet plummeting to earth that needs to be destroyed. Our whole call to action is to take as little action as possible.

Save the world by staying at home. Seriously! What the hell!

Damn you Hollywood, we are totally not mentally prepared for this. We have all become, Inaction heroes.

Our heroes have shifted. High paid football players are not in the news, unless they've been caught flouting the inaction laws. Movie stars aren't in the news for their latest movies, most have been cancelled or postponed.

All of these original "action heroes" are now being judged on their actions and character, rather than their sporting or acting prowess. The really great ones, are shining through. The dumb ones are being caught out. The smart ones are being very quiet. Our heroes now wear hospital scrubs.

Our minimum wage workers, running checkouts and keeping groceries stocked are now "essential workers". What this means for them is they still get to go to work, be abused for some stock shortages they have no control over, be at risk of catching this deadly disease all for the same minimum wage they always worked for. But now they are essential!

In the midst of all this inaction we have to try and keep the economy running, so the government in their wisdom hand out cash to our jobseekers and pensioners. So now people that have been told to stay at home, have a pocketful of cash. Guess what? Surprise!

They're not staying at home. They've gone out to spend that money. Maybe we should have given this money to our minimum wage essential workers. At the very least it would have been a good thank you for dealing with all the drama. So for now, the whole world is grounded. Be a hero and do nothing.

Restart an old hobby, catch up on TV, read a book or write one even. Be an inaction hero.

Understand, our doctors, nurses, delivery drivers, checkout operators and other essential workers are today's action heroes. There's very little reward for them above and beyond their normal wages, so the least we can do is say thanks. Tell them their doing a great job. Tell them a joke.

Show them, that we, the inaction heroes, appreciate them.

David Richards, Tamworth