Paul and Glenn are back for another fun and entertaining episode. This week we pay our respects to those that served in the Vietnam War and commemorate Vietnam Veterans Day. We discuss some sportspeople who served in the Vietnam War or had some association with it. Some of who we discuss include.
- a great Aussie song about the Vietnam War
- A former Australian cricketer who is the only living cricketer to have seen active service and has gone on to do great things in raising the awareness and knowledge of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
- A former Aussie cricket larrikan with an impressive test record and who took up his heavy smoking habit when drafted for National Service for the Vietnam War.
- Muhammed Ali and his strong stance against the Vietnam War.
- Bob Fulton doing National Service and being a physical fitness instructor in the 1960’s on boats sailing between Australia and Vietnam.
- Woody Campbell, Rocky Bleier, Roger Staubach, and Bob Kalsu
- Leon Spinks, Jesse Ventura and Bill Bradley.
- Tom Seaver
- The 1968 World Series Baseball Game 5 when the crowd expressed their patriotism and displeasure with the National anthem and with Vietnam Veterans complaining.
- The Socceroo’s playing a tournament in Vietnam in 1967 during the height of the Vietnam War and the conditions they had to endure.
We also pay our respects to the passing of the great journalist, interviewer and cricket tragic Sir Michael Parkinson. We give our claps and slaps of the week. Miss Olivia drops by to do the Quiz and Who Am I? we have our Where are they now? Segment and Glenn wraps up the show with one of his cracking jokes.
Vietnam veterans day sources
1. https://pacificairshowaus.com/the-airshow
2. https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/commemoration/days/vietnam-veterans-day
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Long_Tan
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War_casualties
5. Anzacportal.dva.gov.au ‘sport and australian military life, n.d australian government
6. Aspeninstitute.org ‘what is agent orange?’, n.d.
7. US department of defence. Defence.gov “sports heroes who served:pro football player to vietnam soldier’, by david vergum 6/10/22.
8. Yardbarker.com ‘the greatest athletes to serve in the US armed forces’, by steve pelonero 12/7/2023.
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Walters
10. Thecouriermail.com ‘cricket legends:doug walters reveals how he quit 50 cigarettes a day habit with the help of jack newton and lasers’, by ben dorries, 11/2/2015.
11. https://www.josefeliciano.com/biography#:~:text=Jos%C3%A9%20Feliciano%20is%20recognized%20as,in%20the%20American%20music%20industry.
12. Ussporthistory.com ‘review of 1968: a pivotal moment in american sports’, catarail, james c nicholson, 19/3/22.
13. Thefottballsack.com.au ‘football and war: australia and vietnam 1967-1972’, by dillon izon, 21/3/2021.
14. Wbur.org. ‘At height of vietnam war, australia tried soccer diplomacy’, by james parkinson, 23/2/2018.
15. Blue mountains gazette ‘giving thanks for service’, 9/8/2023.
16. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Dell
17. https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/tony-dell-4937
18. Podcast ‘once upon a time in the ashes, episode 9, tony dell’, 4/6/2021
19. One voice ‘tony dell lived experience 2021’, n.d.
20. Skysports.com ‘tony dell’s journey from ashes debutant to ptsd victim of vietnam war exported in new book’, by greg milam, 24/6/2021.
21. Twice shot ‘stand tall’, by tony dell founder of standtall4pts.org 17/10/2017.
22. The footyalmanac. Write from the heart. ‘Almanac life: tony dell-soldier in a baggy green finds peace at last’, by ron reed, 29/6/2021..
