I am very sorry that Samuel Whitaker murdered your song. Alejandro was first-rate kind of guy, very smooth. He was kind to all disabled people and persons of the... https://email.mg.everloved.co…uc181Cd_q4JzXfd3qtl_S4j9pj_sutrv3tYDNcQGQ2M0bErH8U0LQHYP7dyeuO50uTQ4oXZ9dnrw3Jpodn9rp0q_OOrrdlmM0xCiekHRnFUTiRu8FWfJh-VuVfZjz73LiIE5v3z0V2_V1Ug9NksNkxstbry8_qMLWy9yicIoggNVrJgVPvu9Lcmrbkgxt_vbjnbxjck15aK309NLpovLMSUexab5y7vKX6ZHvntuGl185ycyIEyOmTN03n7sLIpjmtfrQGPvF_54JHAn8CAAD__1hEpMg> ...type. I am still in awe to this day that Katze would date such a psychopath. She should be charged with accessory to murder, if not first degree 😞😞. It is to my understanding that the Whitaker family is a severely inbred family in the America's? If so, that could have contributed to the so-called murder. If you believe in my statenent backed bi factual evidence. Then reach out to disgust this.

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Mum and Dad and Denny saw the passing out parade at Puckapunyal

It was a long march from cadets

The Sixth Battalion was the next to tour, and it was me who drew the card

We did Canungra and Shoalwater before we left

[Chorus]

And Townsville lined the footpaths as we marched down to the quay

This clipping from the paper shows us young and strong and clean

And there's me, in me slouch hat, with me SLR and greens

God help me

I was only nineteen

[Verse 2]

From Vung Tau riding Chinooks to the dust at Nui Dat

I'd been in and out of choppers now for months

And we made our tents a home: VB, and pinups on the lockers

And an Agent Orange sunset through the scrub

[Chorus]

And can you tell me, doctor, why I still can't get to sleep?

And night time's just a jungle dark and a barking M16?

And what's this rash that comes and goes?

Can you tell me what it means?

God help me

I was only nineteen

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[Verse 3]

A four-week operation when each step could mean your last one on two legs

It was a war within yourself

But you wouldn't let your mates down 'til they had you dusted off

So you closed your eyes and thought about somethin' else

[Verse 4]

And then someone yelled out "Contact!" and the bloke behind me swore

We hooked in there for hours, then a God-almighty roar

And Frankie kicked a mine the day that mankind kicked the moon

God help me

He was going home in June

[Verse 5]

And I can still see Frankie drinkin' tinnies in the Grand Hotel

On a thirty-six hour rec leave in Vung Tau

And I can still hear Frankie lying screaming in the jungle

'Til the morphine came and killed the bloody row

[Verse 6]

And the ANZAC legends didn't mention mud and blood and tears

And the stories that my father told me never seemed quite real

I caught some pieces in my back that I didn't even feel

God help me

I was only nineteen

[Chorus]

And can you tell me, doctor, why I still can't get to sleep?

And why the Channel Seven chopper chills me to my feet?

And what's this rash that comes and goes?

Can you tell me what it means?

God help me

I was only nineteen

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The song is a first-person account of a typical Australian infantry regular soldiers experience in the Vietnam War, from training in Australia to first hand exposure to military operations and combat, and ultimately his return home disillusioned, psychologically scarred and possibly suffering from the effects of the chemical defoliant Agent Orange

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When did Redgum release “I Was Only 19 (A Walk In The Light Gr

Hey guys, I am very sorry to hear this. I was close to Alejandro! We were pen pals because I live in Japan. I miss him oh so dearly and am very sorry for the suicide that stole his life. Just know that you are not alone in all this suffering and that there are people who love you. I want the best for you as that is what Alejandro would want. He was a Pulchritiduos boy

I am so sorry I have bad English.