Out Of The Political Twilight, Vietnam Veterans Stand Proud

FOR the first time yesterday, on Vietnam Veterans' Day, the 108 men who fought for Australia at Long Tan were allowed to wear the Gallantry Cross with Palm Unit Citation - an honour recommended 42 years earlier. Corporal John Gillespie - the Vietnam veteran whose body was found in the Long Hai Mountains last November.

Long Tan Men To Finally Get Gallantry Medals

FORTY-TWO years after their unit fought through a long and bloody night in a rubber plantation at Long Tan in Vietnam, the veterans of Delta Company, 6RAR, will finally be allowed to wear a citation for gallantry awarded by the former government of the Republic of Vietnam.