tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post852125212282273541..comments2023-07-02T19:23:47.154+10:00Comments on scuze i: kokoda’s 70th anniversaryFruitCakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15660225514077942415noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-82049020762573182032012-10-25T00:58:54.068+11:002012-10-25T00:58:54.068+11:00It is difficult to understand how so many people g...It <i>is</i> difficult to understand how so many people get caught up in the insanity of a handful. FruitCakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15660225514077942415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-42974460760272216872012-10-25T00:22:25.362+11:002012-10-25T00:22:25.362+11:00War is so very hard to understand, so many young m...War is so very hard to understand, so many young men going away never to return to their loved ones, it makes me want to cry for man's greed and insanity. Excellent post FC.PerthDailyPhotohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14077053209100022305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-66830538569168301042012-10-24T23:00:52.670+11:002012-10-24T23:00:52.670+11:00Hi MStacks. As someone who hates even having to go...Hi MStacks. As someone who hates even having to go back upstairs because she's forgotten something, I find it inconceivable that anyone would do the Trek 3 times. There must be something special about it.<br /><br />Perhaps we ought to commemorate 22 Oct as Soup day?FruitCakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15660225514077942415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-12060400497506609782012-10-24T20:27:05.384+11:002012-10-24T20:27:05.384+11:00Excellent post FC. and I love Andrew's commen...Excellent post FC. and I love Andrew's comment of The Soup Lady Revenge. I bet Blamey was right up himself.<br />I did housesitting for some people who went on the Kooda Trek for their 3rd time, and then on to Europe. The phone rang late one night and it was a villager from the route, asking for 300 dollars so his 7-y-o daughter could have a kidney operation in a far village he had to carry her to.<br />I wondered how he diagnosed. When the travellers returned they sent the money. I wondered how she had lasted another 3 weeks. He probably made more than one call. canny. It's a jungle out there.<br />iODynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06394268529143990889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-74916174735721347772012-10-24T00:03:27.281+11:002012-10-24T00:03:27.281+11:00Hi Diane, I'll agree it is ultimately stupid a...Hi Diane, I'll agree it is ultimately stupid and should never be glorified. Perhaps we could agree to disagree about the forgotten part?FruitCakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15660225514077942415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-2323384398939551192012-10-24T00:01:45.675+11:002012-10-24T00:01:45.675+11:00Hi Red, You would have seen quite a few memorials ...Hi Red, You would have seen quite a few memorials in your travels - as time goes by the attitude to WW I and the Empire seems increasingly as weird and remote as life in the middle ages.<br />But yes, it is a separate issue. Whether or not we agree with our soldiers being in this or that place, they are there on our behalf and we should - through our government - show a little more respect in many specific cases.FruitCakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15660225514077942415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-46752875211310344942012-10-23T23:51:03.000+11:002012-10-23T23:51:03.000+11:00It makes me furious to see memorials that speak of...It makes me furious to see memorials that speak of the dead as giving their lives for 'god, king and country' when with the benefit of hindsight we know that wars are not so much about those things. But that is a separate issue to the courage and bravery of those caught in the middle of it - ie the soldiers - who, in my opinion, should be compensated to the hilt for being put in the impossible scenarios of war.Red Nomad OZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03020668094026661054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-69356639875597784912012-10-23T23:29:32.546+11:002012-10-23T23:29:32.546+11:00War is ultimately stupid and should be forgotten n...War is ultimately stupid and should be forgotten not glorified.diane bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002292118984909883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-13993259937621099512012-10-23T08:24:53.573+11:002012-10-23T08:24:53.573+11:00Windsmoke, I totally agree with you. Even if there...Windsmoke, I totally agree with you. Even if there were no immediate plans to invade Australia [tho' I believe there were] there would be nothing to stop Japanese leaders from changing their minds.<br />If mini subs as far south as Victoria, and bombing way beyond Darwin didn't at least make our coastline a target, I don't know what it would take to convince so called experts.<br />It's a total insult.FruitCakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15660225514077942415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-25054443748959854792012-10-23T07:07:03.824+11:002012-10-23T07:07:03.824+11:00Whether or not the Japanese intended to invade Aus...Whether or not the Japanese intended to invade Australia is not the point of Kokoda the purpose of Kokoda was to stop the Japanese in their tracks from invading Australia from the outset and our Aussie Diggers succeeded. Doesn't really matter what is written on a piece paper which has come to light after all these years which in fact could be a work of fiction.Windsmoke.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12225394580987872677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-46550954698559925082012-10-22T20:50:11.740+11:002012-10-22T20:50:11.740+11:00The name 'Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel' is one Austra...The name 'Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel' is one Australians will see as affectionate, even if the rest of the world thinks it might have been patronising. <br /><br />The story of the hot soup is a 'heart-warming'story. There are probably plenty of people in Oz with similar tales to tell.FruitCakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15660225514077942415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2523157134200402843.post-55991191547961274252012-10-22T16:15:51.141+11:002012-10-22T16:15:51.141+11:00I had not heard of Fuzzy Wuzzy Day. I see the name...I had not heard of Fuzzy Wuzzy Day. I see the name as affectionate. <br /><br />On a personal note, years ago I worked with a woman who was serving a meal to Blamey and she deliberately tipped hot soup on him as he was so rude to her.<br /><br />I can never imagine the predominantly Anglo Saxon Australia of the 1940s under Japanese rule. <br /><br />Nice work, Fruit Cake.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com