Geoff already knows I did two years conscription, I've talked about being trained often enough how to kill people. You stick a long knife in, twist it 90 degrees and pull it out. They reckoned if you didn't twist it, the knife could get stuck and you can't spend all day trying to remove it. Then of course there was training how to riddle bodies with bullets.

They were training me to do all this knowing full well that I was just out of my apprenticeship of machining, had been law abiding, looking forward to a career in my trade (the Army refused to let me do that). They drove me mad because I instinctively knew that I needed to gain more post-apprenticeship skills in my trade to be proficient later on. But the politicians were embarking on the de-industrialization of Australia at that time, so they wanted as many future manufacturing tradesman out of the workforce as they could get out. Then they implemented what we now know as, a "Service Economy"

At the moment, I'm reading a book called "The Nashos' War", and it says in there that some wounded Vietnam soldiers were shot by a few of our troops at the end of the battle of Long Tan, under the guise of "they were attempting to escape". It was being done on both sides, American wounded bumped off by the Vietnamese, and wounded Vietnamese bumped off by allied troops

Albosqueaky is in Vietnam now, or was the other day, keeping his mouth shut about war crimes I'll bet. We love Communist Vietnam now, great blokes they are, it's as if the war never happened, in spite of the fact that the North Vietnamese Army murdered countless innocent civilians when they first crossed into South Vietnam

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