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30-10-2007, 06:08 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2   | Avenues of Honour
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp  Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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30-10-2007, 07:24 AM
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I was always impressed by the Avenues of Honour, especially in country towns.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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30-10-2007, 12:34 PM
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This is a great idea and has also been taken up by the Ontario goverment here in Canada also. Though on a slightly different idea they actually have named some of the main highways such as the main road into Ottawa, the 416 is now know as the Veterans Memorial Highway. And the highway between Kingston and Toronto is known as the Highway of Heros. The reason for that is all casualties which are being brought back from peacekeeping missions have to travel that route. I'll see if i can get some pics on the way back through. Take care all Mike (Sniper) 
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30-10-2007, 07:30 PM
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You're Top Poster: #4  | That is a wonderful idea. A grander version of our national Memorial Arboretum.
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