Veterans 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…)
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‘Howard Haters’ vent their spleens at Vietnam Nam Bang Exhition
Saturday, April 11th, 2009A 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…)
