Re: Questions about Thailand .

"pluto" wrote ...
> ""Froggy" wrote/and/or quoted:
> >Sandy Cruden a écrit :
> ><snip>
> >> Victory Monument (1941) in Phahonyothin Road to honor Thai servicemen
> >> and civilians who died in the Franco-Thai war from November 1940 -
> >> January 1941, over disputed Indo- Chinese territories that are now part
> >> of Cambodia.

> >No offence meant to Thai people, but as a French I have always enjoyed
> >seeing Victory Monument, celebrating a *victory* in a war over
> >territories ... that ended back in Cambodia.
> >Cheers,
> >Froggy

> hmm how come every country has a victory monument except japan which has
> the hiroshima memorial?
> pluto

Just a wild guess, but it might have to do with Japan losing the war ;~)
-maxwell

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