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To: Gay State Conservative; unkus
I should add to my previous post - Australia is absolutely covered in war memorials. Even very small towns and small suburbs of major cities contain their own small memorials.

shows a few of the small ones near where I live.

And there are some simply massive memorials. My favourite, and I believe the best in the country is the Shrine Of Remembrance in Melbourne.

On its side are carved the words:

LET ALL MEN KNOW THAT THIS IS HOLY GROUND. THIS SHRINE, ESTABLISHED IN THE HEARTS OF MEN AS ON THE SOLID EARTH, COMMEMORATES A PEOPLE'S FORTITUDE AND SACRIFICE. YE THEREFORE THAT COME AFTER, GIVE REMEMBRANCE.

At the time the Shrine was being built, Melbourne was serving as Australia's capital and this was a national memorial as well as a state.

The Australian War Memorial in Canberra is the central and current national memorial.

These are the places that I would say are closest to the place in our national heart that Arlington occupies for our friends in America.

10 posted on 10/04/2006 6:45:05 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: naturalman1975

Thanks-tears to my eyes.


12 posted on 10/04/2006 6:50:08 PM PDT by unkus
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