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(A Personal Post) Remembering Pearl Harbour Day with a short story.
https://tujuhbelasan.com/ ^ | Pearl Harbour Remembrance Day, (Australian time) 2020 | Ozguy1945

Posted on 12/06/2020 4:06:46 PM PST by Ozguy1945

It is Pearl Harbour Day now in Australia.

My father served in the field ambulance of the 2nd 14th Battalion of the Second Australian Imperial Force in 1945. He camped in Morotai for three weeks in June before sailing to the war’s final major battle, the second Battle of Balikpapan.

This story imagines what might have happened if someone like my dad had made friends with General Douglas MacArthur.

If we are to be free, than our imaginations must be free.


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Books/Literature; History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: commemoration; douglasmacarthur; indonesia

1 posted on 12/06/2020 4:06:46 PM PST by Ozguy1945
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To: Ozguy1945

Pure pointless fiction.


2 posted on 12/06/2020 4:15:36 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: Repeal The 17th

Let us know how you feel...


3 posted on 12/06/2020 4:27:57 PM PST by devane617 (Kyrie Eleison, where I'm going, will you follow?)
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To: Ozguy1945

Interesting read. Thanks for posting.


4 posted on 12/06/2020 4:28:45 PM PST by devane617 (Kyrie Eleison, where I'm going, will you follow?)
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To: Repeal The 17th

Have you no imagination, no wish for simple joy? No poetry in your soul?

This is a fiction, yes, but a beautiful surmise, a pleasant wish. Both for a harmony of humanity and a celebration of G_d’s creation.

I pity you in your mire. Dreams, wishes and hopes are both G_dly and human. We can wish to better ourselves and to honour G_d, and work to be less sinful. THAT is what I see in this short tale.


5 posted on 12/06/2020 7:25:40 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: Don W

You must not have ever heard the story that I made up about the time me and George Washington talked about a bunch of stuff one time.


6 posted on 12/06/2020 7:32:18 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: Repeal The 17th

There could have been a witty, clever, and intellectually stimulating reply here, but it is obviously redundant.


7 posted on 12/06/2020 9:52:18 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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