Norm's Army/Folk Hero Australian Story : Season 2 Episode 12

Norm's Army This week's Australian Story features an ordinary Australian family with an extraordinary and heartwarming tale to tell. The story starts in the sixties in the jungles of Vietnam and ends in the beautiful Channel area of Southern Tasmania where a "rainbow collection" of adopted children are growing up together in the family of Norm and Lorraine Cairns. In 1968 Norm Cairns was an infantryman serving as a member of the "Tunnel Rats" near Nui Dat. After an all night battle with the Viet Cong, he shot a man who was lying on the ground, trying to pull the pin ...