Diamond Valley Vietnam Veterans
Ms WARD (Eltham) (09:57): Thank you to the wonderful Diamond Valley Vietnam Veterans for their significant community memorial service on Saturday. Veterans in the community gathered together to pay their respects for those fallen and remember the difficult challenges our Vietnam veterans have faced both during the war and since. Thank you to all of those who contributed to the service, including Simpson Barracks chaplain Isaac Khan, DViets member Paul Mann and Max Bovalino for his speech on his insight into the Vietnam War and the decades that have followed. Viewbank College students Remy Giuliani and Lachlan Deane are to be applauded for their performance of Redgum’s I Was Only 19, as is Caitlin Davey for her singing of our national anthem. The DViets are to be applauded for their ongoing work in the community supporting veterans, and I thank all who helped organise Saturday’s service.