This is a biography taken from my family’s personal stories of my grandfather, his life and his childhood, growing up during the Great Depression in Australia. It also includes his stories from World War II, the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder on families and the individual, the changing attitudes of those who grew up during the Great Depression and fought in World War II and those whose labour efforts at the time helped win it, the attitudes of the baby boomers and the hippie movement.