To all those that endured those time and those that still do, my hat is off to you and tonight I will toast you with a glass of red........ a big thank you from this little black duck.
This was a war on the telly every night to me as a young lad I did not understand what it was about I do remember my dad a WW2 vet making comment and how these soldiers were not welcomed home properly . To these soldiers I say thank you for your service to Australia and our way of life. I have been to Vietnam earlier this year and seen the destruction caused by that war and like all wars I wonder what really was it all about? A war that really had no winner a legacy left behind in Vietnam from chemical warfare by the U.S. That is still causing damage to new born babies to this very day, the war museum in Hanoi tells a very different story to the one I grew up with,
I guess there is always two sides to a story.
No matter why or what started it our vets served Australia proudly and bravely some payed with there life some with there minds an bodies for years after, I can not even begin to understand what our boys n girls who served went through and what some still go through,
all I can do is simply say
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
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Those of my kin that were 10 years older than me went to Vietnam to show how military strength could be asserted without bloodshed and fanaticism. I cannot presume to speak on their behalf. In my view these my slightly elders are heros. For my part I welcomed Vietnamese refugees to a new life in Australia as they arrived in Greylands WA refugee centre. They were a gutsy and traumatised cohort. One man could never be stopped from "making it" he was runnning on adrenaline. Another man, an Artist could barely open his eyes to speak. The Vietnamese are an honourable people and in my experience, more patriotic than most of us blow ins.
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And I somehow rather fancy that I'd like to change with Clancy ..
As one of the funniest men known, Bob Hope, would say, "Thanks for the memories" and I don't mean that nastily.
My next door neighbour from those days was in 6 RAR and was involved in that day. Unfortunately he never came home. The street lost a good bloke and I lost a friend.
May they all RIP.
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I was not involved, and did not endure, But I will also lift my glass to them,
