ANZAC DAY
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Guys going into battle would swig some rum to calm the nerves.
Rum and milk is mainly an Aussie tradition, in NZ (and also Aussie) it is Rum & coffee. It is called a "Gunfire Breakfast", an Anzac Day tradition, which honours the dead and unites the living, an act of respect.
Rum and milk is mainly an Aussie tradition, in NZ (and also Aussie) it is Rum & coffee. It is called a "Gunfire Breakfast", an Anzac Day tradition, which honours the dead and unites the living, an act of respect.
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In Aus they treat Anzac Day like a second Australia Day. It's much more dignified in NZ.
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It used to be. Don't tell me they've gone all ra-ra patriotic
about it now as well...You must walk in traffic to cross the road - Cambodian proverb
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any one reading this thread believes the nonsense being spruiked by the trolls, i want to make it know to them in the deepest personal sense that Anzac day is the most solemn day in australia & for all australians anywhere they maybe
thru shit to more shit
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I'm not trolling. Anzac day in Australia has been dominated by patriotic nonsense for years. People now actually think it's a day to celebrate. It's so not.
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Arget do you disagree with me? Is it right to have live concerts at Anzac Cove? Anzac dance parties? Anzac footy test matches? How is that appropriate for commemorating the brave actions of those who fought in wars for Australia/New Zealand (and back then, Britain)? You don't party and celebrate that. Between the increasing commercialisation and patriotic nonsense it's become an embarrassment.
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Flanagan is dead right, it has become a cargo cult. Someone on twitter said as if Australia Day wasn’t bad enough now we get this.
I will be at the esplanade at 5am with the Cambodians however. I have been going for more than 50 years. But there is far too much politics involved, Howard started it. No one used to the Dawn Service except in Perth where even 30 years ago they got 30,000.
I googled Cambodians WW1 and of course they got killed there fighting for the Empire. Asian was cemeteries are chock a block with Asians, Moslem Indians and Africans. I didn’t find one Aussie or Kiwi in the cemetery north of Rangoon.
And although we hate Moslems in WW2,especially the British Indian Army had greater losses than us. Mostly Sikhs and Moslems. We couldn’t trust those bloody Hindus. They wanted their country back!
We fought for the British Empire, not for freedom.
But it is a special day and I enjoy it. But fuck the jingoism. Australian planes are bombing in the ME as we speak and we are still in Afghanistan after 14 years. And if only politicians looked after veterans as they look after themselves. Too many suicides every year.
I will be at the esplanade at 5am with the Cambodians however. I have been going for more than 50 years. But there is far too much politics involved, Howard started it. No one used to the Dawn Service except in Perth where even 30 years ago they got 30,000.
I googled Cambodians WW1 and of course they got killed there fighting for the Empire. Asian was cemeteries are chock a block with Asians, Moslem Indians and Africans. I didn’t find one Aussie or Kiwi in the cemetery north of Rangoon.
And although we hate Moslems in WW2,especially the British Indian Army had greater losses than us. Mostly Sikhs and Moslems. We couldn’t trust those bloody Hindus. They wanted their country back!
We fought for the British Empire, not for freedom.
But it is a special day and I enjoy it. But fuck the jingoism. Australian planes are bombing in the ME as we speak and we are still in Afghanistan after 14 years. And if only politicians looked after veterans as they look after themselves. Too many suicides every year.
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My grandfather and great uncles served in WW1 and my father served in WW2. Not all returned unscathed.
My family remembers them on ANZAC day and also those who did not return and I am eternally grateful to all that I have never seen a world at war in my life time.
All those who served in the forces of many countries, not just Australians, proudly march throughout the country and in some case in far flung locations including Iraq, Afghanistan, France, Poland and in many others the day is celebrated as a day to remember those who perished and also to those who returned as persons who have made the world a safer place for me to live in and to raise my children and grand children.
Do I think it has been commercialisec by corporations out to make a quid ? Yes I agree but to many Australians it is a rememberance to those who made the extreem sacrifice for our freedom and to others a celebration of the freedom we now still enjoy. I cannot say I enjoy some of the commercialisation of the day but if some of the younger generations see this way of celebrating freedom then that is their choice. A choice that is the result of sacrifice by all thoses who fought and died so that they could have that choice.
Ithink that the Ode is what it is all about.
We will remember them.
My family remembers them on ANZAC day and also those who did not return and I am eternally grateful to all that I have never seen a world at war in my life time.
All those who served in the forces of many countries, not just Australians, proudly march throughout the country and in some case in far flung locations including Iraq, Afghanistan, France, Poland and in many others the day is celebrated as a day to remember those who perished and also to those who returned as persons who have made the world a safer place for me to live in and to raise my children and grand children.
Do I think it has been commercialisec by corporations out to make a quid ? Yes I agree but to many Australians it is a rememberance to those who made the extreem sacrifice for our freedom and to others a celebration of the freedom we now still enjoy. I cannot say I enjoy some of the commercialisation of the day but if some of the younger generations see this way of celebrating freedom then that is their choice. A choice that is the result of sacrifice by all thoses who fought and died so that they could have that choice.
Ithink that the Ode is what it is all about.
We will remember them.
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