Running time
35 sec
Copyright
Department of Veterans' Affairs
Transcript
The Indonesian officers and the Indonesian soldiers were pretty good. They stayed on their border with all their little Indonesian flags flying and we sat on our side of the border as well. You know, we had Australian flags and stuff, even though we were respectful of the East Timor country.
So we would literally go down into the water, shake hands and then he'd tell me in English, how many's coming through and we shake and walk back to our side of the creek and bring them through. So as far as that integration, that was about it really, because that was their country and we were in the new country.
