ANZAC DAY 2011 – This year will mark the 45th anniversary of the first National Serviceman / conscript from the state of Victoria, Australia to be killed in the Vietnam War on 10 June 1966…His name is Leslie Thomas Farren of Reservoir. Read his story. He was killed 19 days short of his 21st Birthday […]
www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=9408&page=0 Real heroes and media heroesBy Sasha Uzunov – Wednesday, 9 September 2009 All the fuss surrounding Victorian State Minister Tim Holding surviving a two-day ordeal in the state’s snow country after being lost would suggest a society yearning for real life heroes and role models. read on…
VIETNAM VETERAN DAY – MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA 18 August 2009 – The Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Honouring those Australians who served or were killed whilst fighting in the Vietnam War (1962-72). This year is the first that all missing in action servicemen have been accounted for, after the recent discovery of the remains of […]
An attempt to find common ground amongst Veterans in the recent debate about Australia’s role in the Vietnam War (1962-72)… The article below received enormous feedback on the www.onlineopinion.com.au website http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=9187Gallipoli good, Vietnam badBy Sasha Uzunov – posted Tuesday, 21 July 2009 Don Tate, Vietnam Veteran and author of The War Within, has made explosive […]
ONLINE OPINION – Australia’s e-journal of social and political debatewww.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=8805 Vietnam nightmare ends with newsman’s deathBy Sasha Uzunov – Friday, 24 April 2009Legendary newsman John Sorell, aged 72, has died. Sorell made his name with the infamous and inaccurate Vietnam war crime story in 1968. It was a story that was to unfairly plague and […]
Brisbane Courier Mail newspaper article, Australia http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24814541-27197,00.htmlHoliday hypocrisyby Sasha UzunovDecember 17, 2008 11:00pm UNION protest at dropping the long weekend rankles with Vietnam War veterans stung by past anti-war action.For some of Queensland’s Vietnam veterans who watched this week as the Queensland Council of Unions jumped on the Anzac legend bandwagon to keep a public […]
DAREBIN CITY HEROES Private Bruce Kingsbury VC – Kokoda WWII Private Les Farren – Vietnam KOKODA TRACK HERO —PROPOSAL FOR KINGSBURY VC MONUMENT Sasha Uzunov, a Reservoir freelance photo journalist and former Australian soldier who served in East Timor, says he wants to propose to Darebin City Council that they place a statue of one […]
REMEMBRANCE DAY SPECIAL PHOTO-ESSAY IN STEP: Victorian State Premier John Brumby (without hat) gives an eyes right salute to the eternal flame as he marches up the steps to the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne, 11 November 2008… The Premier has gone out of his way to make himself known as the Veterans’ Premier… THE SHRINE […]
