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THEY WERE ONLY By JOHN RYAN JOHN Lennon’s famous song “Imagine” talked about a world where there were no wars, but for people like Dubbo man Greg Jankowski, who was ripped from the city’s streets at 19 years of age and bundled off to fight as a rifleman in Vietnam, the world
wasn’t so kind. Imagine the furore today if Dubbo kids, who’d just finished school, were conscripted to fight overseas in a war which was dividing the country. Imagine if your brother, your boyfriend, your mate, your son, was suddenly snatched away and died on foreign soil, his life cut
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short by decades. Imagine if your brother, your boyfriend, your mate, your son, returned home to jeers, to public criticism, to a life where Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ripped his mind apart, leading to alcoholism, drugs, an unhappy life and an early grave. Imagine if your brother, your
boyfriend, your mate, your son struggled with mental demons, had troubled relationships with family and friends, and woke screaming every night because the nightmares wouldn’t go away.
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ONE YEAR AFTER SON’S DEATH, STILL NO ANSWERS By JOHN RYAN
IT was cold and windy in front of Dubbo Hospital on Tuesday this week, August 16, but Rick Hampson said he knew he had to hold a public vigil for his son Dougie, who’d died 12 months ago to the day when he
A family photo of Dougie Hampson
walked into the Emergency Department asking for help. One year on, he said, the family wants a Coronial Inquest so they can get answers which he hopes will allow them to begin filling the holes in their hearts. Continued page 2
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