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Saturday 31May 2008:

Originally Posted by BuckBuckNo1

Arrived at the Civic Square in my riding gear and reporter Emma Jollap [sic] from TV3 asked the digger carrying the Aussie flag and me for interviews.

In the news item last night there we were in two very brief commentary clips:http://www.tv3.co.nz/Video/Thousands...4/Default.aspx

1969 seems many moons ago, but yesterday listening to the dates (KIA) of each of thirty seven Kiwi servicemen I could not help but reflect where I was that year: Perth, Sydney, Sea, Sunda Strait (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:S...ait_map_v3.png) , then off Singapore, then into South Vietnam to unload military equipment and disembark numerous soldiers from a Royal Australian Regiment that joined the ship in Brisbane, then embark numerous more from a returning Royal Australian Regiment shipping them back to Fremantle and Port Adelaide. Listening to the dates took us back there immediately....Lest We Forget.