The anti-war debate was hidden in Australia ANZAC Day Military News
Melbourne, Australia – Bob Manz was 19 when he received military service in the Vietnam War in 1967 for service in the Australian Army.
“I was about to turn 20,” he told Al Jazeera. “It didn’t seem real to me – it never seemed real to me to fly bullets around Vietnam.”
In 1964, the Australian government undertook to send troops to Vietnam on behalf of the United States.
While on his way to the White House, then-Prime Minister Harold Holt said his nation would walk “with all of the LBJ (Lyndon B Johnson)” – even if it means joining young people like Bob in “national service”.