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Hey guys, Anzac day today, hope you are all going well, I went to the dawn service this year as i normally do, hope you all have a good day of remberence.


(here is a photo from my house)

[Kilbey]

I understand it's a veteran's memorial day, but why is it called "Anzac" day?

[Cipher13]

Originally posted by Kilbey:
I understand it's a veteran's memorial day, but why is it called "Anzac" day?

Australian and New Zealand Army Corps

[Mr. Blur]

Originally posted by Cipher13:
Australian and New Zealand Army Corps

thanks....i was wondering that myself. cool picture zoom_zoom!

[Myriad]

Be sure to get yourself from ANZAC biscuits. They're made from real veterans.

[xenu]

One of two occasions that our politicians can get out and pretend they care about people other than themselves.

The other occasion being an election.

Amusing to see little jonny plagarising GWB by flying to baghdad for the day (an Aussie joke).

[Zoom_zoom]

Originally posted by xenu:

Amusing to see little jonny plagarising GWB by flying to baghdad for the day (an Aussie joke).

- thats a good one


oh, thanks mr. Blur\! - i couldn't get back to sleep after the service,so i decided to take a picture.

[Face Ache]

Here's to the 106,000 Australians who have died at war.



And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda

When I was a young man I carried my pack
And I lived the free life of a rover
From the Murrays green basin to the dusty outback
I waltzed my Matilda all over
Then in nineteen fifteen my country said Son
It's time to stop rambling 'cause there's work to be done
So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun
And they sent me away to the war
And the band played Waltzing Matilda
As we sailed away from the quay
And amidst all the tears and the shouts and the cheers
We sailed off to Gallipoli


How well I remember that terrible day
How the blood stained the sand and the water
And how in that hell that they called Suvla Bay
We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter
Johnny Turk he was ready, he primed himself well
He chased us with bullets, he rained us with shells
And in five minutes flat he'd blown us all to hell
Nearly blew us right back to Australia
But the band played Waltzing Matilda
As we stopped to bury our slain
We buried ours and the Turks buried theirs
Then we started all over again


Now those that were left, well we tried to survive
In a mad world of blood, death and fire
And for ten weary weeks I kept myself alive
But around me the corpses piled higher
Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over tit
And when I woke up in my hospital bed
And saw what it had done, I wished I was dead
Never knew there were worse things than dying
For no more I'll go waltzing Matilda
All around the green bush far and near
For to hump tent and pegs, a man needs two legs
No more waltzing Matilda for me


So they collected the cripples, the wounded, the maimed
And they shipped us back home to Australia
The armless, the legless, the blind, the insane
Those proud wounded heroes of Suvla
And as our ship pulled into Circular Quay
I looked at the place where my legs used to be
And thank Christ there was nobody waiting for me
To grieve and to mourn and to pity
And the band played Waltzing Matilda
As they carried us down the gangway
But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared
Then turned all their faces away


And now every April I sit on my porch
And I watch the parade pass before me
And I watch my old comrades, how proudly they march
Reliving old dreams of past glory
And the old men march slowly, all bent, stiff and sore
The forgotten heroes from a forgotten war
And the young people ask, "What are they marching for?"
And I ask myself the same question
And the band plays Waltzing Matilda
And the old men answer to the call
But year after year their numbers get fewer
Some day no one will march there at all


Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
Who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me
And their ghosts may be heard as you pass the Billabong
Who'll come-a-waltzing Matilda with me?

And here's to the poor bastards that will die today.

[voyageur]

[Kilbey]

Originally posted by Myriad:
Be sure to get yourself from ANZAC biscuits. They're made from real veterans.

I thought I had bad manners.

[DeathToWindows]

well quoted, Face Ache.

honor those who died.

[thirsty]

Face Ache

on ya mate! Awsome Post

That said I feel more proud to be an Aussie today than on Australia Day.

[Face Ache]

Alec Campbell, the last known survivor of the ANZAC forces at Gallipoli (and the last known survivor of Gallipoli) died on Thursday, May 16, 2002 at the age of 103.


Mr. Campbell enlisted at 16, and served at Gallipoli in 1915. He led Hobart's ANZAC Day parade three weeks prior to his death.



But year after year their numbers get fewer
Some day no one will march there at all