Kokoda Track – Mud, Blood & Medals

Filed Under Military Medals

Jul 26, 2009

Medals Gone Missing presents “KOKODA TRACK – MUD, BLOOD & MEDALS” – The First in the Series of You Tube ‘commemorations’ set to contemporary music. This short presentation brings to mind the sacrifice of Australians on the Kokoda Track in 1942. In particularly the U.S. medal awarded to an Australian; the commander of the 39th Battalion, the Victoria Cross awarded at Isurava and the other men who did not win medals of any particular significance, but did their job and gave away something far more valuable than any medal…….their lives. The slideshow is set to a song that could have been written just for the Kokoda Track, titled “Thankyou For The Years” and written by the master of Australian folk & Military songs, the great Eric Bogle.

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