'nothernug wrote:
But there are two photos in particular... A military graveyard for allied soldiers.
Well, as near as I can determine, they were in India not, 'buried in Burma," and they are there yet but you can believe the place doesn't look like that any more! Typically, them folks not only could care less what was done for them at great cost, some of them out right resent it!
Sorry for veering off but I've been seeing this topic title and thinking of this every time and just had to post this.
?? I'm not sure you can make that judgement without going there and seeing for yourself? and proving such views and opinions?, there are WW1 graveyards in Europe still regarded well by the villages and their children for the sacrifices of those who died nearly 100 years ago,
Here is an allied war cemetery in Burma, apparantly well cared for?
This cemetery was created in 1951 and the remains from many temporary small military cemetaries were re-interned here, it one of 7 such cemeteries in Burma/Myanmar with allied war dead buried there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taukkyan_War_Cemetery
There are 34 listed war cemeteries in India, and these, as well as those in Burma and in France are administered by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission on behalf of the British and Commonweath national governments such as India, Australia, New Zealand etc
The US has its own agency, the American Battle Monuments Commission to manage US and overseas Military Cemeteries, the only on in the Pacific is at Manila and I suspect the graves in the US Cemetery in India in your photos were relocated post war to this central Cemetery by the ABMC.
http://www.abmc.gov/cemeteries/cemeteries/ml.phpQuote:
The Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in the Philippines occupies 152 acres on a prominent plateau, visible at a distance from the east, south and west. It contains the largest number of graves of our military dead of World War II, a total of 17,201, most of whom lost their lives in operations in New Guinea and the Philippines....Twenty-five mosaic maps recall the achievements of the American armed forces in the Pacific, China, India and Burma. On rectangular Trani limestone piers within the hemicycles, are inscribed the Tablets of the Missing containing 36,285 names.

If there is any evidenced resentment or even attacks against such graves as occured in Libya recently against Australian and other Commonwealth graves, it is inspired by the cynical and inconsistant foreign policy actions of many of our current governments and the UN and not resentment against the deeds of those who died in WW2.
regards
Mark Pilkington