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By Bob Lange

Remembrance at the AWM
Poets Corner 

BLUEY TURNER’S DEAD

28/08/2021 Posted by Brian Hartigan 944 Views 0 Comments By Bob Lange

“Bluey Turner’s dead” Phil said, As he slumped down on the bed. “He was on his second trip,” he said,

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The Vietnam Memorial in Canberra. Photo by Laura Larking.
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HER ONLY SON

30/07/202130/07/2021 Posted by Brian Hartigan 910 Views 0 Comments By Bob Lange

She sits there in the country sun, With the photo in her hand. It shows the face of her only son, Who went to Viet Nam.

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Vietnam file photo– no caption details. Courtesy DVA Facebook page.
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He Died in Vietnam

10/02/2021 Posted by Brian Hartigan 744 Views 0 Comments By Bob Lange

I looked at the body lying there, The suntanned face, the short blonde hair. Ten minutes ago, he was feeling

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The Vietnam Memorial in Canberra. Photo by Laura Larking.
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A Big Adventure

21/01/2021 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1405 Views 0 Comments By Bob Lange

It was all a big adventure when I went away to war. It couldn’t really be too bad, our fathers

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The night she said goodbye

14/01/202114/01/2021 Posted by Brian Hartigan 767 Views 0 Comments By Bob Lange

“I think the Army’s changed you,” She said to me that night. “And now you’re going to Viet Nam, And I don’t think that’s right.”

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Entrance to the Australian Force Vietnam HQ in Saigon, 1968. Photo by Sergeant Kevin Thurgar. File number THU/68/0146/VN
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JUST A YOUNG BLOKE

11/01/2021 Posted by Brian Hartigan 982 Views 0 Comments By Bob Lange

When I was just a young bloke, I thought I’d been around, I might have been a country boy, but

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