An Australian medical officer treating the New Zealand W Company during a resupply in the field during the Vietnam War. Photo: AAP / AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL / EKT / 69 / 0015 / VN
Today is the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan, and Vietnam has abruptly banned the commemoration service. The service took eighteen months of planning, and there are a dozen New Zealand veterans in Vietnam for the occasion, with about one thousand Australian veterans and their families .
John Bell, the New Zealand owner of Belly's Watering Hotel bar, in Vung Tau says the veterans are very upset after making the trip to Vietnam.
