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Inside Out - Veterans Disabled by War
Television (Full Length Episode) – 1999
Having returned to El Alamein on the 50th anniversary of that battle, and seeing the 12,000 crosses there in the dessert, which represents El Alamein — there for the grace of God, go I.– Alan Johnston
While the New Zealand government developed excellent facilities to rehabilitate soldiers with physical injuries after the Second World War, it took a long time to appreciate the psychological stress caused by war.– Narrator Roger Wilson
We were used in the most degrading and disgusting way.– Roy Sefton describes soldiers' involvement in the Christmas Island/Kiritimati nuclear tests of the 1950s
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