Kanchanaburi, Thailand 1
World War II Cemetary
Kanchanaburi, Thailand
Minivan for ten. Two Dutch, a married couple from a small island off of the coast of Africa. Others came and went.
First stop – WWII War Memorial Cemetary
Graves for the allied POW’s who built the railway across the River Kwai. Over 200 graves still unmarked.
It’s the Flander’s Field of Thailand.
World War II Museum
Kanchanaburi, Thailand
River Kwai WWII Museum
Like the Korean museums, definite anti-Japanese theme.
The guy who took our tickets at the gate to the museum gave us bananas. I asked how much he wanted for them. He said “no, no, they’re free. You are the sons and daughters.”
A great tasting banana.
Read through WWII stories and photos from the Thai-Burmese perspective. Plenty of black and white pics with sad story captions. But there just wasn’t time to read through all of it.
posted by wesley at 5:09 AM
1 Comments:
This is why, for me, WWII seems endlessly fascinating. Although there were people and whole cultures who carried on unaware that this war was raging, estimates put the percentage of the earth's human population that was directly involved in the war at 70% - this means there were millions of personal stories, an endless well of potential insights into the human condition. I dwell a little on the idea of 70 graves here that remain unidentified...whole lifetimes that spider-web out into other lives, other stories. A writer could almost stick a finger randomly on a globe, go there, and find more than enough WWII material to write volumes.
7:29 PM
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