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  The Track April 20, 2008  Watch our reportReporter: Elise Mooney Just as those 'ragged bloody heroes' slogged along the Kokoda track 65 years ago, the same unforgiving track today takes a new generation of Australias on a journey into the national legend. It's a legend. Like Gallipoli that has become part of this country's growth into nationhood. The soldiers that fought along the track are growing old, their numbers decreasing. Author Peter Fitzsimons says they were a special breed. "They were silent men, they did what they did, they either died or survived and those who survived came home married their sweethearts, raised their children and got on with it...many traumatised...they did not boast about it, skite about it, certainly did not write books about it..." Today it's the children and grandchildren of that 'special breed' who are walking the track and keeping the legend alive. |
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