“He went over there, ripped her clothes off, and took a knife and cut her vagina almost all the way up, just about to her breast, and pulled her organs out, completely out of her cavity, and threw them away. Then he stooped and knelt over and commenced to peel every bit of skin off her body and left her there . . . as a sign of something or other.” (more…)
Archive for Veterans
Nam Bang! Insult to John Howard & Vietnam Veterans
Sunday, June 7th, 2009‘Howard Haters’ vent their spleens at Vietnam Nam Bang Exhition
Saturday, April 11th, 2009Veterans Affairs Minister Alan Griffin opened the Nambang exhibition at the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre with a self-deprecating remark about his understanding of ‘art’ which was not helped by a slight colour-blindness affliction! I was one of many who shared his sentiments. (more…)
A salute to a Vietnam Veteran
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009By Charlie Lynn
Forty days before he woke from a landmine that blew his right leg into the Niu Dat minefield, blasted his right arm off, shattered his left arm, ripped his stomach to shreds, and peppered his body with shrapnel, Sapper John ‘Jethro’ Thompson mumbled to me: ‘I’m not getting out of the army mate – they’re gunna have to build a special dozer I can drive’. ‘No worries Jethro’, I said ‘they’ll do that!’ (more…)
Papua New Guinea – A difficult place to help
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007Speech to the United Services Institute by Charlie Lynn on 27 February 2007
The threatened collapse of nation states in our Pacific neighbourhood and the scourge of terrorism have awakened Australia to the need for a more proactive leadership role in the South Pacific region.
Since World War 11 Australia has punched well above its weight on the international stage. European Union and ASEAN trading blocks and powerful domestic lobby groups in the United States have not precluded us from successfully penetrating overseas markets. We took on the world to win the 2000 Olympic Games for Sydney and we have been America’s most loyal ally in the international struggle against communism, socialism and the more recent war against terrorism. Our early and generous response to the Asian tsunami gained (more…)
