Running time
37 sec
Date made
Place made
Australia
Copyright
Department of Veterans' Affairs
Transcript
I do remember, it always struck me, when we moved to WA and my husband was at sea on a patrol boat. I think that's when the Berlin Wall came down and I remember he came back from sea and something came up in conversation.
I said, "Oh, that's like when the Berlin Wall came down" and he said, "What do you mean?" And they'd been at sea. They'd missed that. And that was a, you know, a quite momentous event in history that they'd just missed. And it really struck me that you are quite isolated in those boats. That's what it was like.
