Celebrating and examining the values of freedom, patriotism and civilised humanity.
Reflecting upon American passion for freedom and the role America played in 1944 and 1945 in ending Japanese colonialism in Indonesia, Jakarta poet Maman A Majd Binfas sent me the above Indonesian words.
Lest We Forget
Geoff Fox, 7th January 2021, Down Under
The film below is a fictional account of two brothers, Billo and Craig, on a Royal Australian Navy ship in World War Two.
When they go to war, men can do terrible things. (So we talk softly, if the world forces us to carry a big stick.)
Geoff Fox, Jakarta, 17/12/2018
