Conflict/military regions & memorials
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kate_frankie
RT @NomadKeith: @RTWBarefoot @5to9traveller @kate_frankie #pttravel I was VERY careful to ask before I took this one! https://t.co/tlQW0prZ…
RTWBarefoot
RT @NomadKeith: @RTWBarefoot @5to9traveller @kate_frankie #pttravel I was VERY careful to ask before I took this one! https://t.co/tlQW0prZ…
RTWBarefoot
replying to @vickyinglis13 @vickyinglis13 @kate_frankie looks like you'll be one of the youngest there doing it, based on the last results! #pttravel
TravelAtWill
There was a lot to see on our stop in Regina Saskatchewan ... https://t.co/K5JyOK6ucR on our travels to Western Canada. #PTTravel
RTWBarefoot
replying to @MaaikevanKuijk @MaaikevanKuijk @kate_frankie agreed #pttravel both sites are ... necessary to visit, for their own ways
BPackersGuide
A3 There are so many that I visited. This one was in Latvia on Lāčplēsis Day #pttravel
JKatzaman
A3 Last summer we stopped by the Flight 93 memorial in Pennsylvania where the passengers downed their hijacked plane on 9/11. #PTTravel
RTWBarefoot
replying to @kate_frankie @kate_frankie #pttravel A3: I don't have any pics to hand of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp but that was quite a place. A couple of museums on site telling you exactly what happened, plus, the ruins.
MaaikevanKuijk
replying to @kate_frankie @kate_frankie I hope I’m not too late to join in? #pttravel A3: Concentration camp Westerbork, Drenthe (The Netherlands)
kate_frankie
RT @BPackersGuide: A3 There are so many that I visited. This one was in Latvia on Lāčplēsis Day #pttravel https://t.co/TAKgvBAQBs
RTWBarefoot
RT @MaaikevanKuijk: @kate_frankie I hope I’m not too late to join in? #pttravel A3: Concentration camp Westerbork, Drenthe (The Netherlands…
kate_frankie
RT @JKatzaman: A3 Last summer we stopped by the Flight 93 memorial in Pennsylvania where the passengers downed their hijacked plane on 9/11…
kate_frankie
RT @RTWBarefoot: @kate_frankie #pttravel A3: I don't have any pics to hand of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp but that was quite a place.…
Morology
replying to @kate_frankie @kate_frankie A3: Got about a third of the way through the Nagasaki memorial. Asked a guard to leave, he opened a back door and let me out. Found a park nearby and took a deep breath, watched some kids playing awhile. Kind of stay away from such places since then. #pttravel
aok_NW
A3 #pttravel There was this display in Zagreb, Croatia I never figured out. It was some kind of reenactment of soldiers marching through town & stood guard over the town fountain.
kate_frankie
RT @MaaikevanKuijk: @kate_frankie I hope I’m not too late to join in? #pttravel A3: Concentration camp Westerbork, Drenthe (The Netherlands…
NomadKeith
A3 #PTTravel The memorial at Stanley, Falkland Islands. I broke away from our tour to visit this, as the name of a very good friend is on there.
vickyinglis13
replying to @kate_frankie @kate_frankie A3. One of the most moving experiences I've had was a walking tour of the battlefields of the Somme. We followed the route taken by 51 Highland division, reading stories of the soldiers #PTTravel
kate_frankie
#PTTravel Chat
Q4 Which museums on war, conflict, occupation or war crimes have you visited & what was your experience there?
BPackersGuide
replying to @RTWBarefoot @RTWBarefoot @kate_frankie I (as a German) would say yes. #PTTravel
RTWBarefoot
replying to @kate_frankie @kate_frankie #pttravel A3: the best museum I've ever been to was the Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem, all about The Holocaust. Even tho the subject was very familiar to me from excessive history lessons, I still had 4 hours in it because it was so interesting & in-depth. *And* I felt rushed!
RTWBarefoot
RT @aok_NW: A3 #pttravel There was this display in Zagreb, Croatia I never figured out. It was some kind of reenactment of soldiers marchi…
RTWBarefoot
RT @NomadKeith: A3 #PTTravel The memorial at Stanley, Falkland Islands. I broke away from our tour to visit this, as the name of a very goo…
RTWBarefoot
replying to @kate_frankie @kate_frankie #pttravel A4: ngl, it's one of the reasons I choose to visit the destinations I do. So, there's the independence museums in Timor-Leste and Bangladesh, that give quite a detailed background of the conflict and years of oppressions in either country. But they're not the only ones.
5to9traveller
replying to @kate_frankie @kate_frankie A3: Shoes on the Danube Bank in Budapest stuck with me. It was done to honour the Jews who were massacred by Hungarian militia during WW2. They were ordered to take off their shoes & were shot & their bodies fell into the river. It represents their shoes left behind #pttravel
BPackersGuide
A4 I tend to visit them whenever I find them. This watch is in the Peace Memorial Museum in #Hiroshima which totally changed my mind on war. #pttravel
RTWBarefoot
replying to @RTWBarefoot @kate_frankie #pttravel A4: Also, I visited a museum in Chile that had previously been a prison and torture centre under Pinochet. All rather sobering.
RTWBarefoot
RT @5to9traveller: @kate_frankie A3: Shoes on the Danube Bank in Budapest stuck with me. It was done to honour the Jews who were massacred…
aok_NW
A4 #pttravel I’ve been to several. Cu Chi Tunnel in Vietnam stands out. You can actually buy ammunition & shoot a rifle on the shooting ground, but they sold it in a way that was hard to figure out, so we didn’t do it. It would have been fun to say I shot a military rifle there
NomadKeith
A4 #PTTravel The Toul Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh. I couldn't finish the tour; just went and sat in silence for a while. And, I only took one photo; it seemed disrespectful to take more
JKatzaman
A4 A few years ago we visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. It includes models of things that show the worst that humanity can devise -- if you call the criminals human. #PTTravel
RTWBarefoot
#pttravel A4: also, I've been to this one, in Ethiopia. For similar reasons.
https://t.co/CX2aHItPxK
kate_frankie
RT @Morology: @kate_frankie A3: Got about a third of the way through the Nagasaki memorial. Asked a guard to leave, he opened a back door a…
NomadKeith
RT @5to9traveller: @kate_frankie A3: Shoes on the Danube Bank in Budapest stuck with me. It was done to honour the Jews who were massacred…
kate_frankie
replying to @Morology @Morology They can be very powerful. I walked around Auschwitz with a woman who lost her mother there. The devastation on her face at times was heartbreaking #PTTravel
kate_frankie
RT @aok_NW: A3 #pttravel There was this display in Zagreb, Croatia I never figured out. It was some kind of reenactment of soldiers marchi…
kate_frankie
RT @RTWBarefoot: @kate_frankie #pttravel A3: does the Berlin Wall count? https://t.co/BQvJgrjjLx
kate_frankie
RT @NomadKeith: A3 #PTTravel The memorial at Stanley, Falkland Islands. I broke away from our tour to visit this, as the name of a very goo…
Morology
replying to @RTWBarefoot @RTWBarefoot @kate_frankie Landed in Timor once. Indonesian military types said no and put me back on the plane. #pttravel
kate_frankie
RT @vickyinglis13: @kate_frankie A3. One of the most moving experiences I've had was a walking tour of the battlefields of the Somme. We fo…
RTWBarefoot
replying to @Morology @Morology @kate_frankie was that before independence? #pttravel they were making a hash of that place by all accounts
kate_frankie
RT @RTWBarefoot: @kate_frankie #pttravel A3: the best museum I've ever been to was the Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem, all about The Holoca…
kate_frankie
RT @RTWBarefoot: @kate_frankie #pttravel A4: ngl, it's one of the reasons I choose to visit the destinations I do. So, there's the independ…
kate_frankie
RT @5to9traveller: @kate_frankie A3: Shoes on the Danube Bank in Budapest stuck with me. It was done to honour the Jews who were massacred…
kate_frankie
RT @BPackersGuide: A4 I tend to visit them whenever I find them. This watch is in the Peace Memorial Museum in #Hiroshima which totally cha…