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Letter and poem entitled 'Why?'
Title : Letter and poem entitled 'Why?' Letter and poem entitled 'Why?'
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Creator : Dabinet, Wayne
Source : Campaign for Peace in Vietnam (S.A.), SRG 124/2
Date of creation : 1967
Format : Letter
Contributor : State Library catalogue
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Letter written by Wayne Dabinet to the CPV (Campaign for Peace in Vietnam). Attached is Wayne Dabinet's poem 'Why?' written about the war in Vietnam.


Subjects
Coverage year : 1967
Period : 1946-1979
Further reading :

Brown, Malcolm, Stuart MacGladrie & Candace Sutton. You're leaving tomorrow : conscripts and correspondents caught up in the Vietnam War, North Sydney, N.S.W. : Random House, 2007

Doyle, Jeff, Jeffrey Grey, and Peter Pierce. Australia's Vietnam War, College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2002

McKay, Gary. Viet Nam shots : a photographic account of Australians at war, St Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2002

Murphy, John. Harvest of fear : a history of Australia's Vietnam War, St Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 1993

Pederson, Geoff. Two years too long : a "Nasho" in Vietnam, Norwood, S. Aust. : Peacock Publications, 2004

Saunders, Malcolm. 'Opposition to the Vietnam War in South Australia, 1965-1973', Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, no. 10, 1982, p. 61-71

Scates, Bob. Draftmen go free : a history of the anti-conscription movement in Australia, [Richmond, Vic. : B. Scates, 1988]

Internet links :

Anzac Day Commemoration Committee (Queensland) See: History: Vietnam

Australian War Memorial See: Australians at War: Australian Military History Overview: Vietnam War 1962-1975

Australian War Memorial See: Research and Family History: Encyclopedia: Conscription

Australians at War [Department of Veterans' Affairs]

Reporting the nation: 50 years of ABC TV news and current affairs. Key stories: 1969: 'Protests against Vietnam War gather momentum in Australia'

Vietnam Veterans' Association of Australia See: Education

Vietnam War 1962-72

Vietnam War 1961-1975 State Library of South Australia Factsheet


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