From: outlawpoet - (outlawpoet@stealth.hell.com)
Date: Sun Apr 07 2002 - 01:41:09 MST
Oh, come on now, Mr Broderick, you're always going to be able to find some ignorant webpages on the internet.
That is a bad bad bad webpage, the rest of it is similarly misinformed regurgitated common american knowledge(tm). But that doesn't mean on an international level, the australian army's action had no effect.
That not all american's have a laser-like focus on past military action's their relevance, and the involved parties, or even a basic knowledge of history, yes, but I think that's a seperate point, and probably applies to most peoples in the world.
Justin Corwin
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-- Damien Broderick <d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>At 04:54 PM 4/7/02 +1000, I wrote about:
>
>>the poor bloody duped
>>Aussies ...
>>supposed rationale for Australian involvement: that we were *helping our
>>friends across the Pacific*, who would *never forget our brotherly
>>sacrifice*.
>
>I find after some googling:
>
>http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/6984/armies.html
>
>>Follow the links below for great informative pages on each of the armies
>that fought in Vietnam
>>
>> Links to other sites on the Web
>>
>> The Viet Cong
>> The NVA (Northern Vietnam Army)
>> The ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam)
>> The US Army (United States Army)
>
>Uh huh.
>
>Damien Broderick
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