Travelogue International! – Page 331

Kai-Lin’s Poppy Pictures – Lest We Forget! (17.11.2023)

17/11/2023 Adrian (釋大道)

German soldiers could not believe what they were seeing as these columns of British soldiers – with rifles shouldered – marched calmly toward the German trenches, stepping through the poppy flowers as they went! Initially, many German machine-gunners refused to open-fire on such an obvious target – but were forced to do so by their Officers! The result was an absolute massacre! However, the British High Command accused these working-class regiments of cowardice – and pushed more and more men into the area for the next three-months! In some places the bodies lay stacked in 12-foot piles – and it was these natural barriers that the newly arrived British soldiers had to climb. Many advanced over the shattered bodies of their fathers, uncles, sons and brothers.

Chislehurst Home Guard: “C” Company 54th Kent Battalion! (7.11.2023)

07/11/2023 Adrian (釋大道)

This did, in some areas, include women – with the purpose of forming a ‘mass’ volunteer force comprised of hundreds of thousands of eager individuals who were dedicated to the task of protecting their homes through the logical use of local knowledge. Foreign Paratroopers, by way of example, despite their fitness and daring, may drop both sides of a house (in an unfamiliar area) and have no idea where they are, giving time enough for the inhabitants of the house to open-fire (from the high ground) – thus removing the threat! The soldiers of “C” Company of the 54th Battalion of the Kent Home Guard wore a Khaki British Army-style uniform and possessed a number of very different (old and new) fire-arms (preserved in the Museum maintained at Chislehurst Cave).

Imperial War Museum: How a WWII British Anderson Shelter Saved the Lives of My Family! (26.10.2023)

02/11/2023 Adrian (釋大道)

There were different types of government-provided air-raid shelters issued during WWII. However, the version depicted here – is very close to that issued to my mother’s family (surnamed ‘Gibson’) who lived in Lewisham, South London. During September, 1940, the Nazi Germany ‘Luftwaffe’ blanket-bombed East London and killed and wound thousands of British people. During the entire 18-months of the ‘Blitz’ – the Luftwaffe inflicted 40,000 casualties in London and 70,000 all across the UK! My family lived in a three-storied house in Fordyce Road – with a generation living on each floor.

Chinatown: New Loon Fung Restaurant – Dim Sum-Yum Cha! (24.10.2023)

26/10/2023 Adrian (釋大道)

Today, we have travelled into London’s Chinatown to eat at the New Loon Fung Restaurant! This is a special occasion through which all the family celebrates life, love and togetherness! Although it is Thursday – and not the weekend – the restuarant was full to capacity on both its floors!

Buddhist-Marxism Alliance (UK) – A Buddhist Response to Zionist-Fascism! (21.10.2023)

21/10/2023 Adrian (釋大道)

Genuine Buddhist philosophy is automatically left-wing and perfectly aligned with the ideology of Scientific Socialism! The USSR possessed at least three Buddhist-Socialist Republics – with Buddhism being prominent throughout Asia – particularly China, Korea, Vietnam and Laos. It is only in the capitalist West and post-1945 Japan – that a perverse right-wing Buddhism has developed premised upon the very greed, hatred and delusion the Buddha stated causes ALL human suffering in the world! At the above link is a short and concise article published on the Buddhist-Marxism Alliance (UK) website highlighting a ‘Buddhist’ approach to the Palestine-Israeli situation.

Abu Ali to (Arab Journal): The Entry of the Resistance Alliance into the Battle Line Will Change the Map! (21.10.2023)

21/10/2023 Adrian (釋大道)

Arab Popular Solidarity with the Palestinian Cause (and all the free people of the world) – that blessed the Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood – extended through several Arab and Islamic countries which all came to support the Palestinian people. This is the duty of honourable people, and all Arab and Islamic peoples (and free people of the world) must come to support the Palestinian Cause and stand by the Palestinian right to recover their homeland and liberate their land from the clutches of the Zionist Occupation! The Zionists aim, through its colonialist expansionist project, to occupy the entire Arab region and establish its alleged State from the Euphrates to the Nile. But Resistance is on the lookout and will defeat the American-Zionist project!

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