Thread: Proposed war memorial destruction, this is disgusting

Just for interests sake....
(I think this was August)


Foreign troop bases in Afghanistan - Afghanistan - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

foreign troops in Afghanistan.

Originally Posted by drivesafe

Perhaps another suggestion might be for us to retrieve the wall but ship it to New York, to the UN and get them to sort it out the controversy.

At least it would be saved!

I did a deployment with the UN.
If you want anything sorted out in a short time DO NOT involve the UN!!!

I think the UN motto is:- "HURRY UP AND WAIT"

As I said I believe that an offer to place the wall into the care and custody of the AWM would be most likely acceptable to all parties, its just sorting that out for permissions would be good....

If a Tele programme did a special report, and as part of that approached all the parties (eg approach the relevant US/UK/Dutch/NZ etc persons for their 'opinion') this may slice through a heck of a lot of red tape and official approaches etc as it would bring it all to a head I believe.

The names of all the fallen Australians are also on a very nice memorial in the Aussie lines at Al Minhad Airbase (AMA I was honoured to have attended ANZAC day there in April. This memorial is coming home. Every Soldier that deploys to Afghan moves though AMAB and gets to see and reflect at that memorial.
The memorial in TK is huge. And comprises 6 T-walls each weighing several tonnes. The only thing for certain is that it should not be left in TK where it may be desecrated in the future.
Really, The wall is of little importance, the memory of the names placed on it is the important factor. And that is taken care of. The families have seen the land that holds the blood of there sons, brothers and fathers. It should be their decision now.
However, it it was up to me, Id bring it home.

Nino.