Ruth Clare grew up in Rockhampton in Queensland, the daughter of a man unwittingly damaged by his experience as a National Serviceman in Vietnam. Her father’s controlling nature and unpredictable violence made for a deeply troubled home life, as he struggled to come to terms with the impacts of his war experience. Now with a family of her own, Ruth’s recent book is Enemy, a searing memoir of her childhood.
I think the impact of war on families of veterans is a secret history. But I don’t think you can talk about the cost of war unless you talk about the cost to families and about the trans-generational impacts of that, ad infinitum.
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