Some things you never forget. A long time ago, outside a small tented military field hospital in Vietnam, I sat talking to a man who told me things he'd been hearing from the troops. I don't remember all the detail. I do know I was 27 and he was trying to be as disbelieving as I was. He didn't want to believe, but I remember him speaking like someone who knew he'd be proved wrong. There was a war going on that Australia had just joined in a country we knew no more about than we knew about the people...
