Leaping Lindner said:Just a pity that no Australian troops ever got within cooee of Khe Sahn during the Vietnam War.
In an interview on Musicmax back in 2001, Don Walker stated that he does not consider khe Sahm to be tha anthem many consider it to be. The song was inspired by two friends of Don's who were in Vietnam that he had chewed the fat with and written the song when he had an afternoon to kill. One of them was from Adelaide and caught up with the band during their 1998 reunion. He has since died. "If I had of imagined it would be seen or heard, I would have written it differently."