Night @ The Museum

Life in Brisbane is totally different from Singapore. The shop opens at 8am and closes at 5pm except for Thursday which major supermarkets and stores open till 9pm. Still it is best to wake up early, else you wouldn't get anything done by the end of the day.

Today, I manage to visit the Australia National Museum (Brisbane) because it is free ( Unlike Singapore money-minded government ) and caught an eyes full of interesting stuff...ranging from dinosaur to small tiny creepy crawlers. But what really caught my eye was the war-dogs section, I didn't really know that dogs were an essential tool in WWI and WWII. Dogs could inform soldiers of approaching enemies, tanks and even aircrafts. Due to their keen eye-sight and excellence hearing, they are normally use as scouts for the troops.

As a results many were hurt or didn't even manage to make it back. Dogs were rewarded with purple-heart just like many wounded soldiers and were even given ranks such as Sgt or LTA. But after the war end, those dogs were being discard as they were not allowed to return to their countries. As the governments were afraid that the dogs might carry diseases. The owners (or soldiers) of the dogs were given 2 choices either to end its life or discard them.

Many soldiers weep and regret their decision to bring their pet dogs into battle. One of the soldier wrote his feeling in his diary "I regret bring husker to Vietnam that day, because the war has end but I'm not able to bring her back..." such words really touches people soul.

For more photos on the Museum please visits MyPhotoAlbum.

Night @ The Museum