Ming ga la doh Cemetary (Taukkyan)

Thoughts of my father, his friends, their fear and their sorrow. Here at the WW II Memorial Cemetary I picture my father as he was just a few years ago when he came here to bury fellow Royal Canadian Airforce Members. Their wreckage was found by a farmer clearing away the jungle. My father and a few others were brought here by the Canadian Forces to take part in the ceremony. He and his fellow air force members were so proud, so sad and so touched ... still as if the war was just yesterday.
"So much has changed in Burma" my father said when he returned home. So much had changed in the country now known as Myanmar. But only the body's aging had changed those men. Their hearts were still fresh with memories of friendship and loss. My heart feels here as it did in Hiroshima. So many lives lost to extinguish greed and the need to control. So many needlessly taken from us. The question is.... "Did we learn anything?" I think not!