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“That (day) affected me and I know it affected some of the other boys as well.” He now experienced mood swings and anxiousness in large crowds but could not explain why, and nor did he need to in the company of veterans. East Timor and Afghanistan veteran Mark Preston at the Mackay Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park in 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill “You can’t compare Vietnam to the Middle East to East Timor or any other conflict … each has its own experiences,” Mr Preston said. RSL Queensland state president Tony Ferris said the community’s need for the organisation’s support was “far greater and more complex than ever before”.

PTSD: If we get them in early, they ll be all right

Premium Content Subscriber only Leslie Palmer needs medication to sleep, haunted by the seconds 51 years ago that killed eight of his mates and left him with lifelong physical and mental injuries. The Vietnam War veteran and president of Mackay Veterans Group suffers a severed nerve and post-traumatic stress disorder but he counts himself lucky after the incident on February 28, 1970. Mr Palmer said he and his 8th Royal Australian Regiment battalion comrades had been chasing the enemy through Vietnam s Long Dien mountains. We knew we were in a minefield, Mr Palmer said. We did the prodding of the bayonets into the ground to make sure there were no mines in front of us.

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