A stirling memorial, Subash.
One would think that the granite could have been more carefully
matched when they inserted "The Nation" into it. :-)
I was moved by the story of your father, and have a pleasant mental
picture of him, ear cocked to the 12-band taking note of the code as
it came across.
A generation from now that skill will all but be lost as Morse Code
has been phased out of most training.
Joseph McAllister
Pentaxian
On Oct 14, 2008, at 23:01 , Subash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
we have a war memorial here, built in 1939 in memory of those who died
in WWI and later extended to include WWII and a few others which india
bought with china and pakistan post independence. it is a huge
circular
structure with a tower in the middle, with the circular structure
naming the various theatre of operations and those who died there.
this
is a shot of the base of the central tower:
http://picasaweb.google.com/pdml.live/PESO#5257224399856328722
nobody knows when 'empire' was changed to 'nation' but obviously it
was. what do you guys think?
the full 'tower' here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/pdml.live/PESO#5257224400320090594
both, *ist DS and the da 16-45mm...
btw, fwiw, india sent, under the british, the largest volunteer
army from any single country to WWII. my own father saw action under
the
british in the then 'far east'. he was a soldier, not an officer, with
the signals. never talked about it much except that he lugged a
marconi
around. lived to the ripe old age of 85. and in his last days/years, a
decade back, he got enormous pleasure out of decoding morse signals in
the short wave bands of the panasonic 12-band transistor radio he
had. :-) if you have been with me this far, thanks for listening. and
looking.
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