ANZAC Forces in VietnamPrint Page 
Australia's military involvement in the Vietnam War began with the arrival of the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) in South Vietnam during July and August 1962. Australia's participation in the war was formally declared at an end when the Governor-General issued a proclamation on 11 January 1973.
However, the end-date of Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War has officially been amended to 29 April 1975 to reflect Australia’s further involvement in the war during the fall of Saigon in 1975. The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Australian War Memorial, in Canberra now recognise this new date.
Location
| Address: | 2 - 4 Templeton Street, Wangaratta RSL , Wangaratta , 3677 |
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| State: | VIC |
| Area: | AUS |
| GPS Coordinates: | Lat: -36.352149 Long: 146.326846 Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate. |
Details
| Monument Type: | Honour Roll |
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| Monument Theme: | Conflict |
| Sub-Theme: | Vietnam |
| Actual Event Start Date: | 03-August-1962 |
| Actual Event End Date: | 29-April-1975 |
Dedication
In remembrance of ANZAC Forces in Vietnam
The Tide is Turning
"The Tide is Turning where the dead of Vietnam reconcile themselves with the living, and the living of Vietnam reconcile themselves with the dead.
The Tide is Turning towards a time when men can feel safe to call the war insane, to feel safe to know their hearts and minds WERE wounded, and feel safe in the knowledge the healing of God has begun. The Tide is Turning to where we feel safe enough to recognise that others suffered too; that among us stand those who lost their land, lost their homes, their families, their country. Others lost their innocence, their youth, their pride, their hope, and that many lost their faith; and from so many countries so many lost their lives.
That no matther what flag they are buried under, in the end, they died the same - all brothers all sisters of the Vietnam war.
The Tide is Turning towards a time when Governments will know that wars cannot be won by stealth, nor by deception.
That if we commit the lives of young men and women to the furnace of war again, not only the hearts and minds of their soldiers must be won, but the hearts and minds at home, so that those gentle heroes never again return to rejection, hatred, doubt; where wars continue in young minds 20 years after the last shot is fired.
The Tide is Turning where all tears have been cried, all the hearts have ached enough, all the warriors have hidden enough, felt unwanted enough.
Where men can say the war was not finished, but the fight against evil was not lost. The war is over for us now. But it'll always be there for the rest of our days. But as the tide washes away the scars of the past, those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again, to teach others what we know .......to use what's left of our lives to find a goodness and meaning to this life. "
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They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old
Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun and in the morning we shall remember them
Lest We Forget
