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INTRODUCTION
Born in 1948 Melbourne Victoria, James Ingram spent a year as a rifleman in the Australian regular army serving in Vietnam as a result of the national military service introduced by the Menzies government in 1965. ...
Today he still recalls his naivety into what he was to experience during his time in Vietnam and how it had changed him from being a happy go lucky larrikin (as he used to like to describe himself) to a more serious and reserved person prior to returning back home.
In 1970 on completion of his tour of Vietnam and with a discharge from the army he returned to Melbourne with a view to re assessing his future. ...
Summary of interview:
Mr Ingram had never had any political leanings towards any party nor did he care too much about what was going on in the rest of the world, he’s only cares at the time was chasing girls and getting as much surfing done as he can. ...
Mr Ingram recalls that overtime he developed a hate for the Viet cong ,the local population and Vietnam itself , through seeing mates seriously wounded or killed or not knowing whether when you came upon the next village you couldn’t trust the information being given by the local population as to the enemy. ...
Discussion:
Following the defeat of French forces at dien bhien phu in 1954, the country of Vietnam was divided in two by the Geneva conference at the seventeenth parallel of July the same year. ...
As america was stepping up its presence in Vietnam it wanted to show the American people that it wasn’t alone in shouldering the responsibility of defending democracy in south Vietnam so it tried to draw in its allies without much success for support but out of the few country’s that did support the conflict was Australia more for its own reasons than defending the south Vietnamese government.
Approximate Word count = 1489
Approximate Pages = 6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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