Located north of Lake Griffin in Canberra, the Australian War Memorial is the world's largest military museum. Place among them, super shock. The exhibits contain a large number of objects, including heavy equipment that has participated in previous battles, field diary, military supplies, and personal belongings of opposing officers and soldiers. Some rust spots, some bullet marks, some well-preserved, some incomplete. Others were decommissioned as they were, such as the giant George bombers and turrets removed from warships; there were also pieces of wreckage, such as two Japanese submarines sunk at Sydney port.
The exhibits of the memorial hall, as well as the battlefield realities simulated by sound and light technology, a large number of pictures and film and television materials, truly reproduce the wars that the country participated in. Including two world wars, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War and the Afghanistan War. In addition to this, there are also United Nations peacekeeping operations. The Australian government believes that all participants should be respected and commemorated by equal treatment. Everyone who died for the country is engraved on the wall of honor. In the history of the founding of more than one hundred years, there were 100,000 martyrs who died in the country. These names carved on the wall are densely ordered, sorted by age, have no title, no title, and no honour or honorary title, indicating that everyone's life is equally important, and everyone's contribution to the country is equally great, it is worth remembering. .
We live in Canberra because we have friends and relatives as visiting scholars at the National University of Australia. In the meantime, I have visited the war memorial at least twice. The first day with the children and family, the second day alone to avoid interference and constraints, focus on the focus of their interests. Every day, forget to return, do not want to leave for a long time. Because the feeling is too much, there may be new discoveries and new inspiration at any time. I wonder if it will happen again and again before I return.
In addition to World War II, the Korean War is my focus, and my longest stay in the pavilion. Australia's engagement in international affairs seems to be a tradition of active, particularly positive, and responsible power. Every time the resolution of the United Nations is implemented, it is unequivocal. When the Korean War broke out, it also sent troops. In the United Nations, which is composed of more than 20 countries, it is not much, but it is no less. A total of two battalions, plus an air force combat squadron and a transport squadron. This alone does not seem to be worth mentioning, but the loss of war lasting three years has resulted in more than a thousand casualties. This number, too, has almost become the unbearable pain of the country. Remember the other day during a trip to Queensland's Great Barrier Reef, along the Keynes seaside of wharf, municipal facilities in the park found similar monuments inscribed with soldiers killed in the Korean War. Everyone's life is very important. By contrast, countries that yell at all costs are so cold-blooded and ruthless to ask their citizens to pay for their flesh and even their lives.
The reason why we pay special attention to this period of history is well known. It is a lingering nightmare for the Chinese, and its influence continues to this day. Had it not been taken out of context, the five-star general of the United States would have been able to place himself in the wrong place: at the wrong time and in the wrong place, there had been a wrong war with the wrong enemy. One step wrong, step by step wrong, as Lu Shaoyou and Tang Wan Meimei's fault. Australia, which has a large number of Chinese immigrants, has become the preferred place of choice for some officials' mistresses and illegitimate children to hide and have fun. They used to fight our loveliest people in the fiery East Asian Peninsula and die. feel irreconcilable hatred for sb!
In Australia's War Memorial, the Korean War did not occupy a particularly prominent position, not even as much as the Gulf War and the Afghan War. But the old man found a mind-shaking physical display in only a few windows (see photo). Especially the remains of a female prisoner of war in the volunteer army, please read the introduction
A female Chinese soldier’s personal effect
In 1953, a 2RAR patrol attacked 30 Chinese soldiers in a gully, they came across a mortally wounded Chinese soldier who explain in English she had been educated in Canada. She gave Private Donald Wilson a vallet containing the items seen here, including a small puzzle, a small perfume bottle, a cigarette packet, and the diary of another soldier, Chungshan Zhang, which contained details of a patrol along the front.
Personal belongings of a Chinese female soldie
In 1953, a patrol car attacked a 30-man Chinese army in the gutter and found a badly wounded female soldier, (male volunteer soldier). Being wiped out on the spot may be the best outcome, otherwise, how can the man of China be able to do so?) She said in English that she had studied in Canada. She handed over a wallet to Private Donald Wilson, who displayed everything in it, including a little puzzle, a small perfume bottle, a cigarette case, and a diary that belonged to another soldier. Zhang Chunshan, which records details of patrolling the front line (on the other side of the unfolding diary book, transcribes a popular lyrics from that year: sing Erlang Mountain). .
Women volunteers, and captured women volunteers, to the already very mysterious group, added more mysterious color. According to statistics published in 1953, only one woman, Yang Yuhua from Sichuan, was among the returned volunteer prisoners of war. Although there was only one person, it was made up by many media, even fabricated out of the air, making up a lot of imaginative plots, implying that sexual invasion, had been repeatedly made up by rape and gang rape. He and his fellow soldiers, who were still alive in the camp at the time, had been outraged at rumors. In fact, Yang Yuhua, captured late in the fifth battle, was a 16-year-old nurse of the 180th Division, mistakenly thought to be a male soldier because of his short hair, and locked up with other volunteer prisoners of war. It was a few months after the capture that it was discovered that it was a female soldier because of an official holiday. If anything like sexual invasion sexual abuse did happen, it would not be up to the U. S. or UN soldiers.
So far, only one woman has been captured by the volunteers, according to public information. So the objects and materials displayed at the Australian War Memorial, in terms of the time of capture and the brief text presentation, are clearly not the same Meimei. With the exception of a few words, not even a name was left, which is why the old man used the word relic in his writing. There are, in general, the following possibilities-
First, the female soldier had already suffered serious injuries at that time, only when she was captured, she was conscious and finally died.
Second, even if the female soldiers have been rescued, judging by the normal age, the possibility of being alive at present is negligible;
Thirdly, there is only one woman soldier in the volunteer army who has become a prisoner of war. Is it possible that this English-speaking woman soldier has made other choices?. This possibility almost does not exist, with the Australian rigorous and realistic, it is impossible to show in the display without a name or surname;
Fourth, the ability of female soldiers to deliver their personal belongings to enemy soldiers in a sober state, similar to the last will and last wish, is also a bleak and helpless trust at the end of their detentions.
According to historical records, Yang Yuhua, the only woman who was officially identified as captured by the government, was also hopeless because of injuries and was abandoned by his comrades in the volunteer army as they broke through the siege. The wounded female soldier, who had not left his name, could only entrust the enemy soldiers with their wishes. Write down this passage, the old husband does not want to come from it, tears flow all over his face. However, this is not the biggest shock, the display of the window of those objects, although unable to speak, but let the grass and trees moved, iron stone heart, heaven and earth covered with tears.
Educated, perfume-carrying girls in Canada, and even like smoking jigsaw puzzles, is so petty and romantic. In the life-and-death capricious battlefield, there is such a beautiful face and male soldiers through the gunshot rain, such a strong visual impact, eye-shattering. (see photo) -. When it comes to the 16-year-old female soldier who has been a prisoner of war, how many associations can be made in this age and how many days has it been asked? The girl on the battlefield with perfume, and the capture of a woman who had not yet been on a holiday, could only let me be desolate, sorrowful, so speechless and cursed without a mother.
The owner of diary Ben is supposed to be a male volunteer soldier. Love to copy lyrics of the age, have countless beautiful dreams. Life and death are comforting. After all, their own diary book, by the beauty of the face with the collection, until the last moment of life. Erlang Mountain's Sichuan-Tibet line, also buried the same youth, affecting countless ethereal thoughts, although pay a heavy price, but after all, the benefits of the country, countless ferry people. However, the exotic spirits of the Southeast Asian Peninsula still have uncounted remains, not only nameless or even forgotten, but even the motherland has not taken the initiative to collect the bodies and let them become the bones on the edge of the Wuling River.
The surface of Lake Griffin reflected the blue sky and white clouds, and the flag of the Mi-star fluttered high. The air here is particularly fresh, like the cities and villages that can be seen all over Australia, like Wonderland, still in heaven. Pastoral life is yearning. I don't know how to be a guest in my dreams, so I always make my hometown of another country. It is hard to imagine such a resource-poor, sparsely populated kangaroo country, supported by agriculture and animal husbandry alone, to be among the world's developed countries in a short period of time. What's even more amazing is that the country has participated in almost every war in the world and has never suffered a bruising defeat, almost always making the right choice in the history of the key time,.
Local friend Garry, a truck driver, visited China a few years ago with his girlfriend Brenda. I visited the Pearl River Delta and other places such as Lijiang and Dali in Yunnan. He said the war memorial was well worth visiting. All the wars in which Australia has participated have not shown the pride and pride of a distinctive country. When we made dumplings together, he said there were no real winners in these wars. Such a mind and insight is very different from the government and the people who claim that they are always the biggest winners.
Two days in a row, in Australia's war memorial hovered, still unfinished. The volunteer woman, who became a prisoner of war, was almost forgotten by history. If there is a spirit in nature, whether it can feel, decades later, there is a compatriots from the motherland, although not acquainted, but gazing at her relics repeatedly into a long period of deep reflection, lingering for a long time and can not bear to leave.
Coming home, Australia is coming to an end, the wife and children are busy shopping. I heard that the closing ceremony of the War Memorial Hall every afternoon is solemn and very distinctive. The old man does not want to leave any regrets, or will be on the scene again.