Rockingham Cemetry

[leah]

thats sounds so cool lots!

[Neptune]

I agree with tk62, cemeteries can be quite comforting and very interesting to boot. A good cemetery to have a look around is in Broome. There is a large section devoted to the Japanesefrom the pearl diving days and its chock a block.
I had the honour to visit the war grave in Thailand at a place called Kanchanburi. Now theres a powerful place, or so i thought until i got down into Hell Fire Pass, now that was something else.

[JulieD]

I went to the war cemetary and Hell Fire Pass in January.  It was an amazing experience.

[Neptune]

Fantastic JulieD, in my opion every 18 / 19 year in Australia should visit either Hell Fire pass, Galipolli or the kakoda trail. I am sure there are plenty of other places but these three come to mind. They should stand in silent reflection for those that have fallen just for 1 minute.

[tk62]

I think there is already too many 18/19 year olds that know the pain of a lost friend, this is something only the old should experience. 

[catseyes]

I think showing respect for the sacrifices the 'old' have made so that the young can have the life style they do to day is something worth wild.  Hubbys dad was on the Kakoda twice.  He was shot the first time, medi-lifted to Darwin..heeled and then sent back.  A month later he was shot again, this time they posted him elsewhere.  The several months he was there his squadron never saw more that a couple of hundred meters of the trail.  More people should appreciate the courage and tenacity it took to just stay sane in a place like this!  You had nothing but your wits to help you survive!  Miss Kitty would love to see the place where her grandfather served.  Loosing a friend thro accident or illness is terrible, but this is something else.  This is a sacrifice of life and blood...to me, that makes it sacred!

[PixxieQueen]

Loosing a friend is sacred .  I  have family that suffered through the war years, and I too have lost young friends and young family. Death is death . I agree I think all people should remember and respect the sacrifice given during the war years, whenever and wherever the war was. But the death of a loved one especially young is painful regardless of the cause. I think it is the suffering and the knowing that death is a high possibility for a service person, the sacrifice they gave that deserves respect, not their death as such. In agreeing with tk I think a lot of young people have experienced the loss of friends, especially with the high incidents of road fatalities and drug overdoses,and know the feeling of grief. I think it would be a good idea to educate the children of the sacrifices and the  atrocities endured by  servicepeople from war years gone by and those still in existence now. I a firm believer in maintaining the ANZAC spirit. As I said before death is death no matter what the cause and grief is grief.

[catseyes]

Ofcourse grief is grief and death is death...but we will still disagree on this, no matter what!  Any young life thats lost is a tradgedy, but I still hold that putting your life on the line for others is something else entirely!  Not trying to argue, but that is so different to me!  Blood sacrifice has been with us for as long as we have exsisted, and always concidered sacred to my way of thinking.  I don't expect anyone to agree, it dosn't matter, it wont change my mind!

[PixxieQueen]

Yes CE we do agree, sacrifice at the risk of one's life, for the sake of a nation full of unknown people, especially, should be respected and their memory held sacred. And we also agree the loss of any young life is tragic. I also hold their memory sacred, I am sorry if you misinterpreted me, I'm certainly not asking you to change mind.

[catseyes]

Pixie, LOL, I have had a bad day! LOL.......I didn't intend to sound cross or upset or anything.  I'm not very good at getting my point across, I feel, so sometimes I over do it I guess!

[PixxieQueen]

CE  I too have trouble getting things across as I mean them to be, I must admit I felt I may have led you to believe that I had little respect for our elders who did sacrifice their lives not only by dying, but by suffering for the rest of the lives for their experiences. As far as you stated you "overdo it at times as"   - I haven't found this to be negative in any way. The content of all your post for me, have been informative with a good display of your sense of humour when required.
Thanks for your reply it made me feel better.

Pixxi.

[catseyes]

LOL Pixie, I was trying very hard not to get into that whole 'christmas being negative' type post again, so I thought I'd make it plain I wasn't trying to argue!  Which probably sounded worse than when I was arguing on retrospect LOL!  Its so easy to misunderstand people when all you've got is a post to read!
Its all good hun!  *hugs*

[tk62]

I also was not saying that we should not respect the many who died in the many wars that were fought for our freedom, for I also have had relatives die as well as survive most of these wars, I do feel they warrant respect and acknowledgement, I also am a huge advocate of Anzac day, for the remembrance of the brave and not so brave, of the sacrifice, both the soldiers and their families suffered and are still suffering, but in saying this, i still believe and know that the young are so understated as far as being aware of loss, death and sacrifice, its a shame that they are all bunched together, when really it is just a few that make us believe that the masses are all alike.

[tk62]

Oh and I also wanted to say, That not all need to experience the loss, and persecution to understand it, the young are more in touch than given credit for. Oh and this is not an argument  just a statement.

[Trent1]

they say that every 30 years or so there is another war... and "theyre" right, think about it, i mean even this pointless war on oil is 30 years after vietnam... the theory is that by thirty years, the politicians in charge, and the "soldiers" (younger generation i guess) have forgotten what war is like and how much of a non-answer it is to any moronic problem, and so they go out all macho and decide to try and get thier own way the same way humans have been for, well, since the beginning of homonoids. by fighting.

... two men killing trying to kill eachother whove never even met, over an argument between two fools... not between the two men at all. I shudder to think how moronic the world will become and just hw long for before the morons in charge stop fighting everything, stop tearing things down and start trying to fix things...