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d@rk51d3
Just like Gallipoli.............. or the Alamo..............?
Gallipoli has been seen rightly or wrongly as the time Australia " came of age". I do not necessarily agree with that. However, I can understand why Gallipoli, and indeed WW1 has been etched into the collective National heart. There was probably not a family in this country that was not touched by the tragedy of WW1. The same could be said of many of the participants, but especially France. Most people forget that. However, it was the first time of great loss at War for our fledgling Nation, and it struck deep. It is as though the Nation was in a state of collective shock.
If you have ever been to a Dawn service, you must have noticed the service was not about the glorification of war, or indeed even heroic deeds. It is about the sacrifice of ordinary men and women, and the futility of War. That is the Australian mindset.
The Japanese mindset is starting to worry me. From denying the massacre at Nanking, to talking about changing their mind on the apology over the " comfort women ", to not educating their population about their National mindset in WW2, to wanting to change their constitution to allow aggressive military operations. I hope it is just sabre rattling to give China a message about the dispute over the Spratly Islands. The only thing about sabre rattling, the sabre has to be out of the scabbard . The USA is a little concerned, Bob
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL33436.pdf
I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food
A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking
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