In the year 2000 Derek went to the United States and stayed for 3 months travelling around with the exhibition. Visiting Washington DC on Memorial Day, Rolling Thunder and all the US Veterans who we met really made us feel welcomed. The amazing thing was that the majority of Americans did not even know Australia was involved in the war. The Australian Ambassador opened the display and later gave an Embassy dinner to our group. Years later we are still in contact with many of those Veterans from that first week in the USA.

In the year 2000 Derek went to the United States and stayed for 3 months travelling around with the exhibition. Visiting Washington DC on Memorial Day, Rolling Thunder and all the US Veterans who we met really made us feel welcomed. The amazing thing was that the majority of Americans did not even know Australia was involved in the war. The Australian Ambassador opened the display and later gave an Embassy dinner to our group. Years later we are still in contact with many of those Veterans from that first week in the USA.