Paul Hurdsfield - Joint Manchester AO Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Back in January I drove to the Bridge on the river Kwai just like Jezza and crew. only i did it from Pattaya 300k and 51/2 hours. Hellfire pass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pistonbroke Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Nice shorts Hurdsey , did you knit them yourself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue ass fly Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 My dad built a place to live near Pattaya and was always showing us amazing photos and video of Thailand I was amazed at how small the bridge was Isnt there a railway carved out of the mountain side thats nearby ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Hurdsfield - Joint Manchester AO Posted March 10, 2014 Author Share Posted March 10, 2014 Thats where we're stood, Hellfire pass was cut out of the mountail by hand. Bernie, if you've got the legs for it just do it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Everall Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Very emotional place due to number of young men who died there, I walked over the bridge and went on the train further towards Burma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Hurdsfield - Joint Manchester AO Posted March 10, 2014 Author Share Posted March 10, 2014 It certainly is Tel, we walked over the bridge too. A few years back we spent a few days on the Somme combined with a Le Mans trip, now that place is Emotional with a capital E. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Visited Aushwitz and Dachau when I lived in Germany as a student, (we stayed in a flat rented from a German family of Polish/Jewish decent for a while, they were keen to educate us). Those places get inside you somehow and pop up even years afterward. Had nightmares off and on for quite a while afterwards. Even now 26 or so years ago I can feel the tears burn my eyes just typing this. Its a hell of a shock as a teenager to realiser that there is real, genuine pity less evil in the world, and that it doesn't come desguised as a movie monster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 We've visited Sachsenhausen and Terezin in the last few years. Very sobering places which overwhelmingly demonstrate the enormous unpayable debt that we owe to those who fought, died or survived incarceration in such brutally cruel places. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff oakley Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Many years ago we were camping in France and were told to visit Oradour, as it was a French village that had been left just as it was in the Second world war. So we went stupidly expecting a preserved village. Was I wrong!! It was just as the Nazis left it after they had murdered and burnt everything in sight. I am not a man who is prone to exaggeration, however, I swear there were no birds singing and there was something about the place that was deeply upsetting to me. Something that I have never felt before or want to again, as I type this I feel moved evne now many years after. The link below tells the story but I have no doubt in my mind there are some places so touched by evil and suffering that makes the misery linger forever. I would never go to a concentration camp now as I fear the effect would be much worse on me. http://www.oradour.info/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Colonial Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Many years ago we were camping in France and were told to visit Oradour, as it was a French village that had been left just as it was in the Second world war. So we went stupidly expecting a preserved village. Was I wrong!! It was just as the Nazis left it after they had murdered and burnt everything in sight. I am not a man who is prone to exaggeration, however, I swear there were no birds singing and there was something about the place that was deeply upsetting to me. Something that I have never felt before or want to again, as I type this I feel moved evne now many years after. The link below tells the story but I have no doubt in my mind there are some places so touched by evil and suffering that makes the misery linger forever. I would never go to a concentration camp now as I fear the effect would be much worse on me. http://www.oradour.info/ It was the opening scene and the closing scene for The World At War series. Terrible, terrible story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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