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Old 21-08-2009, 12:36 AM
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Originally Posted by gman View Post
To me, the Golden Rule is you never leave your mates behind.
We owe it to the fallen to bring them home, albeit many years after.

They can have the proper homecoming and finally RIP in a proper burial ground that will always remain so in the country that they fought and died for.

I would not leave it upto another country to look after our own.
I know the Brits have a War Graves Commission that looks after war graveyards in several countries where their soldiers have fallen. The Aussies must surely have a similar body. So it's not left up to another country's government to look after the graves - in effect it's paid for and carried out by our own. It just happens in another country.
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