Friday, April 3, 2020
Good movie
Or at least we thought so. Mrs. Paco and I watched Danger Close on Amazon Prime, last night. It's a movie about Australian and New Zealand troops and the 1966 Battle of Long Tan in Vietnam. Good action, and (it seemed to me) an unapologetic commemoration of the courage and commitment of our antipodal allies.
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Yep, I agree. Watched it last week, it was another one of those stories that didn't seem to make the papers in the US. I arrived "in country" a couple months later and the tales of the Anzac troop's drinking abilities were legend. Good guys to have on your side.
I'd argue that these guys were as 'great' a generation as any, at least from our Oz perspective.
When they came back they were ignored at best, melted back into society and got on with their lives except for annual vets reunions. Many eventually went back to Vietnam and made friends there, and here among the Vietnamese refugees from communism. Friendships based on respect, not the patronising virtue-signalling of the self-appointed 'anti-racists'.
Our society turned against 'old white men' in the 1970s and we got the Gay Mardi Gras and 'brave women' instead. So it's great their story is finally told properly.
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