TO
THOSE OF YOU WHO MAY BE INTERESTED IN
HELPING BOMBER RAISE FUNDS FOR THIS
LAND
CLEARING OF MINES - WE ASK YOU TO DONATE
TO BOMBER'S WEBSITE ...... !!!
http://members.optushome.com.au/glaust/
DIRECT
PAYMENT TO WESTPAC
by Bank Transfer - Cheque or Postal
Order.
Bank: Westpac
Branch: Springwood QLD
BSB: 034-076
Account No: 354687
Tony
"BOMBER"
Bower-Miles and
his Author Mark Whittaker to help raise
funds.
Should
you want to help without sending money
then just buy this book "BOMBER
From Vietnam to Hell and back".
At
your local bookshop as money that is
raised will directly go to the frontline
of deactivating live land mines throughout
Cambodia.
We
thankyou for taking the time to consider
such an important life saving appeal.
If
you wish you can directly call Bomber
and his life saving mission via their
website.
"What
Makes a Man a Man"
As
a young man they trained us hard,
To
fire the weapons and gain each yard,
We
had to run with full packs,
Until
we dropped, with aching backs,
They
said to train it was right, to give
your guts, to stand and fight.
They
taught us how to disarm mines,
And
run for cover at last,
Just
before the Claymore blasts,
We
all learnt hard to shoot and charge,
And
to carry the mines with their deadly
charge.
After
this they said we were men,
I
look back now, and remember then,
We
were boys at heart, twenty-one and all,
They
said we were going to Vietnam you know,
The
Sargent Major said, "Give us a
damn good show".
They
flew us in by Hercules and landed us
amongst the trees,
We
thought the war had just begun,
As
we stood in the rain, and had no sun,
The
time went by so slowly then,
On
guard at night, I would say a prayer,
To
my family, from who knows where,
The
guns at night would make a blast,
And
the fifty calibre would finish last,
To
sit in the ambush, in the dark of night,
As
the trip flare fired, to see the enemy
in sight.
The
rest i leave to you my friend,
As
now i come to the end,
Twelve
months had past, it was time to leave,
My
canvas home, amongst the trees,
It
was sad to go and leave my mates,
When
they flew me over, the compound gates.
But
others will come, and others will go,
And
the loss of life, is sad you know.
JOHN.N,
1ST FIELD SQUADRON - ROYAL AUSTRALIAN
ENGINEERS, VIETNAMS 1968-1969.
TO
ALL THE VIETNAM VETERANS.......
REMEMBER,
YOUR FAMILY ARE APART OF THIS AS WELL.
WE SUPPORT YOU & WE LOVE YOU ... ALL
THOUGH WE DONT SEE THE DARKNESS YOU HAVE
ENDURED ALONE.
WE
ONLY LIVE BY THE LIGHT THAT YOUR PERSONA
TRIES TO BLANKET.
