No words engraved in stone
Australia's forgotten war
lies under the soil
Walking past the small park, I read the words engraved on the war memorial:
"To the memory of the fallen
WWI
WWII
Korea
Malaya
Vietnam"
Standing next to it was the Aboriginal gardener, his T-shirt reading "Alice Springs".
There are no fine stone memorials for the unrecognised war between Europeans and Indigenous Australians. As they say, history is written by the victors.
Valued only as
a tourist attraction
Indigenous past
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