“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…)
Posts Tagged Vietnam
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…)
DAI LE, LIBERAL CANDIDATE FOR CABRAMATTA
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008The Hon. CHARLIE LYNN [6.16 p.m.]: I served in Vietnam with the Royal Australian Engineers in 1967. I was 21 years of age at that time and, whilst I did not really understand the politics of the war, I was aware of the fear that had been embedded in our minds during our school years about the spread of communism. I volunteered for active service because I thought it was the right thing to do. During my time in Vietnam I observed the destruction brought about by decades of war and the poverty of the people. They lived in squalid conditions and always under a veil of fear from both sides of the war. I often wondered how well they would do, with the work ethic they had, in a free, democratic country. (more…)
