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Old 21-08-2009, 12:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Sandrosen View Post
To me, it's a number of things:

As an Australian, I would want to be buried in the country I call home.

As a soldier, it is a "never leave your mate behind" kind of thing.

These guys left home thinking they were supporting their country, they were probably expecting that if they were killed, they would be buried in their country too.

So long as the repatriation process is treated with the necessary respect.
Rupert Brooke said ...

If I should die,
think only this of me.
That there's some corner of a foreign field
that is forever England.

He was a war-time poet, and these words sound to me like these boys expect to be left where they fall. Of course this is just my interpretation, but it seems clear enough.
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