Aussie devotes life to Death Railway victims
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mick3272
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Four years ago I was able to visit the Military Cemetery and Museum at Kanchanaburi, travel on a local train over the Bridge which is still standing and on to Nam Tok, with the line passing over trestles alongside the river. At Nam Tok I went on to the Australian Museum at Hell Fire Pass Memorial. I still cannot believe men actually survived such an horrendous experience. I have to say it was the most moving experience in my life. These men and women must never be forgotten.
Mick
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peedee
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I feel so lucky that my father was born too late to be called up earlier in the war.
He was part of the 14th army that suffered so much they called themselves the forgotten army,
and still wears his Burma star and other medals with pride at the age of 88.
He maintains, and I agree that without the dropping of those two terrible bombs on Japan, he could not have survived the plan to push through Burma and Malaya to drive out the japanese army.
The efforts of all in the far east from all nations, is a tragic story of waste, deprivation, hunger,
fear, fury and loss.
Bless 'em all ; Long short and tall........Heroes all.
Paul
He was part of the 14th army that suffered so much they called themselves the forgotten army,
and still wears his Burma star and other medals with pride at the age of 88.
He maintains, and I agree that without the dropping of those two terrible bombs on Japan, he could not have survived the plan to push through Burma and Malaya to drive out the japanese army.
The efforts of all in the far east from all nations, is a tragic story of waste, deprivation, hunger,
fear, fury and loss.
Bless 'em all ; Long short and tall........Heroes all.
Paul
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