Nature's beauty
Heroes Remember
Nature's beauty
It's not all, it's not all death and things like that that are
terror. The boat trip that we made up the rivers; you know I
had seen films of this as a boy of the Sambo on the River you
know and all this, but the, all the forest comes down to the
sides and the crocodiles on the sandbanks and things like that.
It was beautiful when daylight broke you know and to see all
this. And the other thing was when I was up that mountain, up
that hillside and sitting up there at night and as dawn broke,
to hear the jungle come alive with the animal calls and the
bird calls, and to see the sun rise, and you know you move from
darkness to daylight so quickly in the southern hemisphere.
Twenty minutes you, from black darkness to, but to see it come
up over the jungle it was a tremendous experience and so
even, even in the, with the war going on around you, there was
still time to admire the nature's beauty and I shall never forget
that as long as I live.
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