Comments on: Stop Passerby http://blog.awm.gov.au/awm/2008/04/23/stop-passerby/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:22:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Jessie Webb http://blog.awm.gov.au/awm/2008/04/23/stop-passerby/#comment-321 Jessie Webb Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:15:18 +0000 http://blog.awm.gov.au/awm/2008/04/23/stop-passerby/#comment-321 That reminds me very much of the Greek monument at Thermopylae from ancient times, which reads something like: "Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie". There's something very poignant in the idea of a message to the heedless passer-by from the dead of battles past. That reminds me very much of the Greek monument at Thermopylae from ancient times, which reads something like: “Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie”.

There’s something very poignant in the idea of a message to the heedless passer-by from the dead of battles past.

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