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Norm Wotherspoon, President of the Caboolture Sub-Branch of the Vietnam Veterans Association of Australia, at the Burpengary memorial.
Episode 2586 of the Vietnam Veteran News Podcast will feature a story about how the Australians are honoring their Vietnam Veterans. The featured story comes from the Moreton Daily and is titled: Tribute to veterans of Vietnam War. It was written by Nick Crockford. He has been a journalist for more than 30 years, working for weekly and major daily (morning and evening) newspapers, as well as in public relations and radio in Australia and the UK.
He has led teams covering such as the English Premier League, World Cup Finals and Olympic Games, but says community news is his first love.
Nick has lived in the Moreton Bay Region for more than 20 years and is heavily involved with two of the region’s largest football clubs.
Crockford reported that Veterans of the Vietnam War will gather and be remembered in Burpengary on Friday, August 18, 2023, Australian Vietnam Veterans Day. The event will begin with a short march and service being hosted by the Caboolture Sub-Branch of the Vietnam Veterans Association of Australia.
The march will begin at 10:45am from Remembrance House in Progress Rd before a service from 11am at the memorial in Buchanan Park. The guest speaker will be Major (Retired) Geoff Jones, who served two tours in Vietnam, the first with Charlie Company, 6 Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, as the Company medic.
August 18 was chosen to be the day designated Australian Vietnam Veterans Day because it is the date of the one of the fiercest battles of the Vietnam War fought by Australian forces – the battle of Long Tan.
On 18 August 1966, in a rubber plantation near the village of Long Tan, Australian soldiers fought one of their fiercest battles of the war. The men of Delta Company, 6th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, faced a force of some 2000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops.
The Australians prevailed in the battle.
Listen to episode 2586 and discover more about how the Australians are honoring their Vietnam Veterans.
