 Isaacson married Anne McIntyre in Melbourne on 21 December 1950 . The couple , who had known each other since their teens , had delayed their wedding during Anne 's five @-@ year struggle with polio and Isaacson carried his future bride to the registry office on the day . The marriage produced two sons . On 10 June 1991 Isaacson was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia " for services to the print media and the community " . He published As I Remember Them : Men and Women Who Shaped a Life , a collection of eulogies he had delivered for friends and colleagues , in 2012 . In May of that year he was among a group of thirty @-@ two veterans selected to attend the dedication of the RAF Bomber Command Memorial in London as part of the official Australian delegation . Isaacson is a Life Governor of the Victorian Shrine of Remembrance , having previously served as a Trustee from 1956 to 2000 , and Chairman from 1983 to 2000 . He and his wife live in the Melbourne suburb of Toorak . 
