# What is a 'bravery gong'? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 3, 2023, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bravery-gong/984956 "2023-06-03T14:36:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 36
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2023, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bravery-gong/984956/36 "2023-06-05T18:37:09Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > That could be a thread on its own, but it reminds me of the quotation from Brecht’s Galileo: There is this thread already is that’s what you were referring to: > [@VC recipient found to have committed war-crimes: Ben Roberts-Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vc-recipient-found-to-have-committed-war-crimes-ben-roberts-smith/985010): > > An Australian SAS soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, brought a defamation claim against a couple of news outlets and three journalists who had published that the Victoria Cross recipient had committed serious crimes, including murdering civilians in Afghanistan. On Thursday, the (civil) court found that the allegations raised by the media and individual journalists were essentially true, so no defamation had occurred. Judgment On 1 June 2023, Justice Anthony Besanko dismissed the defamation case bro… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-bravery-gong/984956)._