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'Kokoda': lost and found on the trail: to Australians of a certain age, and even to some younger, the 'Kokoda trail' has acquired the sheen of legendary significance.(WAR AND MEMORY)(Critical essay)(Cover story)
IT is one of those place names that evokes not just a period--1942 and World War Two--or a location, but resonates also with a sense of threat to Australia's insular safety, and to its plain insularity. The other associated echo is that of 'the fuzzy-wuzzy angels', a characterization that now takes the breath away with its paternalism and reeks of political incorrectness. Not then, though: back then and for years after, Australian soldiers spoke of the New Guinea natives who saved their skins with both affection and gratitude, in the decades before p.c. was invented, and when the Japanese threat to Australian shores was real.
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