Remember us ALL

People probably do not vastly realise that my country...Australia served side by side in the vietnam war with the equally couragous Americans. We too paid a high price for being there, some lost their limbs, some lost their comrades, their sanity, their life's and maybe the highest price of all...their souls. All can be found somewhere in the deep and dangerous 'green' jungles of veitnam. Then there are those that never really left there, for it was to hard to do that, i completed 4 tours in the province of Cu Chi, i was what was called a "Tunnel Rat" my orders were to flush out any Veit Cong located in the tunnels. After each tour i came back home and things were just too different. Nobody really cared what was happening over there, they didn't even understand it, but i guess i can't blame them for that as i didn't either. I just knew...like i know now, that Veitnam would and will not get out of my blood. it's like a leech that found a way into my veins and just swims freely as it knows no boundrie's...because once i stepped foot on it's soil, there was just no going back. i guess the whole point of my writing this is that i feel insignificant, nobody wants to remember me as i did not fight under the "right" flag...i was there, i saw it all...some things have been ecthed in my brain till the day i die and when i close my eyes at night, the movie theater of memories that i have, begins to play, over and over again and with the dawn of a new day i say goodbye again...to my friends and the place that i belong and fought for...proudly under the Australian flag...as it was then, and as it will be forever.