ANZAC DAY

[El Presidente]

For our international brethren, today in Oz is ANZAC day.

It is the day on which we remember all Australians who served and died in war and on operational service.

It is a special day on the calendar. One of the few public holidays that has true meaning and taken to heart by the vast majority of Australians.

This morning many of our Aussie members would have attended Dawn service. As I tap this out, street parades are being prepared across the nation from major cities to the smallest of country towns. Great grand children march in the place of their departed relatives who served. tens of thousands take part. Hundreds of thousands more line the streets and applaud. It is indeed a special day.

Lest we forget their sacrafice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkChQvq5PP0

[creamypies]

Rest easy to the fallen. Lost but not forgotten. Til Valhalla

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[scap99]

It's good to see such a patriotic display.

Thank you for sharing this day with those of us not familiar with it.

[cooper669]

Cheers to those who have fallen..............

[JohnS]

For the fallen

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children
England mourns for her dead across the sea,
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.

Solemn the drums thrill: Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres,
There is music in the midst of desolation
And glory that shines upon our tears.

They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow,
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

They mingle not with their laughing comrades again,
They sit no more at familiar tables of home,
They have no lot in our labour of the daytime,
They sleep beyond England's foam.

But where our desires and hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the night.

As the stars shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain,
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain.

Laurence Binyon (1869–1943)

[Warren]

Today I'm a proud Uncle. My Nephew Dan was stationed in the middle east with the Air Force to bomb the crap out of isis.

Today is his first ANZAC day as a veteran and he has been tasked with guarding the Cenotaph.

[MrGTO]

Today I'm a proud Uncle. My Nephew Dan was stationed in the middle east with the Air Force to bomb the crap out of isis.

Today is his first ANZAC day as a veteran and he has been tasked with guarding the Cenotaph.

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Happy hunting!

[OZCUBAN]

Lest we Forget

[LordAnubis]

Let us never forget those who have lost their lives for their families and their country. Let us learn from their sacrifice.

[Squarehead]

Let us never forget those who have lost their lives for their families and their country. Let us learn from their sacrifice.

The sad part is that people will never learn from those wars

[el.barbudo]

My grandfather was at Medenine, Tunisia in March of '43 as a temporary Lt Col, 7th AD (RA) and received a DSO commendation. He wrote in a letter to my grandmother that his equal in the 2nd NZ should also have earned a DSO, but that to his knowledge wasn't mentioned "simply for being a Kiwi". My uncle (also RA) served with some Australians in Malaysia during the "emergency" (he doesn't much like to speak about his experience there) and also has a very high opinion of them.

ANZAC day also represents the disgrace of how "commonwealth" soldiers, sailors, and airmen were too often treated as "second class" by their British counterparts, and by British planners.

Lest we forget...

[dvickery]

Dad was navy & Air Force (I grew up on a bunch of Canadian air bases ) ... For me every day is rememberance day .

Question : why is Anzac Day April 24th ???

Derrek

[PigFish]

God bless the men and women that serve the cause of liberty. Untie their hands, let them get the job done so that they can return safe and in one piece.

Warren, tell your nephew for me, thanks for his service. -Ray

[El Presidente]

Question : why is Anzac Day April 24th ???

Derrek

the anniversary of the landing on Gallipoli in 1915