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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