“I ended up in the military prison, the detention barracks in Vietnam for seven days,” Graham Cornes tells Tony Pilkington.
But naturally, according to Cornesy, “I was actually shafted.”
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“We’d been on operation,” Graham told Pilko on FIVEAA. “We came back to Nui Dat, and that’s like coming back to home. You’ve got a bed to sleep in, you’ve got warm food, and we had an open air movie theatre.”
“I said to the section commander, look I’m going to the movies. It’s one hundred metres away, if we get a call ill be back in 10 seconds.
“And he didn’t tell me not to go. He said, do you think you should go?
“But when I came back they charged me. He said that he told me not to go…
“And if you’re listening Gavin Hargreaves, ‘shorty’ Hargreaves, you little so and so…
“He lives in Adelaide. I see him every Anzac Day. I go to punch him every Anzac Day… no, I was angry for a long time. But when I met him we made up.”
