devastation

What a sad sad picture. And we are still killing each other. When will we learn?

It is a real shame that people cannot learn. After the First World War (above), people called it "the War to End all wars" In roughly a generation men named Hitler and Tojo made a war even more terrible...... and even today there are people bent on killing people who do not beleive as they do....... Why????

WWI was really a sorrowful war. Nothing happened but million of soldiers died. Freundschaftsringe

Generals and politicians should be made to man the trenches.

So sad we should learn from History

The Catholic Church in Innisfail is dedicated to Mary, Mother of Good Counsel (‘Mater Boni Consilii’), a title of Mary, Mother of God, closely associated with the Augustinian Order of priests, who served this parish from the 1880s to 1993. The present church on the corner of Grace and Rankin Streets was the third built in Innisfail. In 1885, the land was purchased in Owen Street for a church that was built in 1891. It stood on the hill facing Owen Street, approximately where the storage shed adjacent to the presbytery carport now stands. Beside it on the Grace Street side of the hill was a separate bell tower. This church was dedicated to the Mother of Good Counsel. It suffered significant wear and tear in a short time, the result of termites, etc, and of severe heat and heavy rain. A cyclone in 1906 caused such further damage that it was decided to build another church. A second church was built, larger and stronger than the first, of silky oak and cedar, on the other side of the bell tower which survived the cyclone intact. On Sunday, March 10, 1918, a cyclone of unimagined ferocity caused enormous damage to the town and district and, although not completely destroying the church, making it irreparable. The church was rebuilt and reinforced several times as cyclones in this area were very destructive. On March 20, 2006, severe cyclone ‘Larry’ caused havoc in and around Mother of Good Counsel Church: windows were shattered, the church structure was weakened and in many places ruined as some of the roofing and the silky oak rafters were torn away. Flying debris from within and without made the church unsafe for the duration of the cyclone and for some time afterward. In 2009, the church was repaired and renewed; there has been a transformation – a death and resurrection. The severe damage provided the opportunity to redesign in particular the altar and sanctuary, to accord with liturgical requirements. This has been done by Architect, Steve Gleeson, who has highlighted theological insights of Vatican II using the best of modern methods and technology while preserving the integrity, simplicity, and harmony of the original design of the church. Bishop James Foley provided much helpful advice in the redesigning. Source: www.gcparish.org.au/Pages/History.html

My son just started in the Navy, so shared your photo with him, thought it would let him see how things used to be before all this technology. Great photos!

Looks like HMS Kelly spent three periods in the shipyard - once as a result of storm damage, the second as a result of hitting a mine and the third following a torpedo attack by E-boats. www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-10DD-38K-Kelly.htm