Bring the Oruzgan memorial wall back to Australia

"SOLDIERS serving in Afghanistan are furious that the top brass want to destroy a memorial wall at the main base in Oruzgan Province that carries the names of 40 Australians killed during our longest war."

According to the plan, the names of the dead will be painted over and the three large reinforced concrete T-wall panels they are written on broken down and buried on site.

Many Diggers, the families of those soldiers killed, and the Australian War Memorial all want the wall removed and taken back to Australia to be displayed at the national memorial in Canberra.

Ray Palmer, whose son, Commando Private Scott Palmer, was killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan in 2010, said he would be upset and angry if the wall was not brought back or taken to another of the coalition countries.

"I don't care where it goes, I just don't want it buried,'' Mr Palmer said. ``If they can bring everything else (back) ... surely this can't be difficult.''

He said he would write to Prime Minister Tony Abbott urging him to put pressure on the Defence Force to reverse its decision.