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Australian Story continues the story of a group of Vietnam veterans who set out to find and retrieve the bodies of six fallen comrades abandoned beyond enemy lines nearly 40 years ago. They call themselves Operation Aussies Home and last week we saw them finally recover the remains of two men: Richard Parker and Peter Gillson - and provide closure for the families of the dead men. But with more comrades still to find, they encountered unexpected resistance over the case of a soldier called John Gillespie. His family wanted nothing to do with Operation Aussies Home. Searching for remains meant digging up bad memories of 1971 when Gillespie died in a medivac helicopter crash in the Long Hai Mountains, not far from Saigon. Gillespie's sister Christine had been fervently opposed to the Australian involvement in the Vietnam War and time had done nothing to quell her anger. For the diggers this rejection was nothing short of devastating. It forced some to question the whole reasoning behind...

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