The ANZAC day thread!

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Hello to all Aussies, Kiwis and Turks!

What did you do for ANZAC day today?

For those from other parts of the world who don't know, today is the day we commemorate a very stupid military order during world war one that resulted in the death of over 8000 Australian and New Zealand troops as they were told to march into very heavy Turkish machine gun fire.

Nanna made ANZAC biscuits!

mmmmmm, I haven't had those in aaaages!

*drools*

MINE!

I cannot say I did anything in commemoration today, but I can tell you that I feel a lot of respect for the armed forces. My great-grandfather fought in WWI, and his brother and father fought at Gallipoli and died in France. I went to the War Memorial in Canberra last year around Australia Day. I remember the Tomb of the Unkown Soldier, a solemn and maginificent place, the atmos of which ruined when some imbecile started whooping in it just to hear the echo.

It's sad, innit, as there are virtually no WWI veterans left taking part at all now.

I thought there were none at all?

Did the last one die the year before last?

Was that just Brisbane? Or Australia in general?

My great-grandfather died back in 1996, at the age of 101.....

I'm pretty sure that was the last one in all of Australia.

That's sad about your grandpa, but at least he had a VERY long life!

ANZAC day doesn't just commemorate that, it also remembers all the other fights we had to go to in other wars like WWII and the Korean War and such.

We have the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior literally a few meters from my High School. It's stupid because we're not allowed to go there anymore because some idiots keep vandalizing it. F$&#ING HELL!! DON'T YOU CARE ABOUT OUT OR PAST OR ARE YOU JUST IGNORANT!?!

I know. As I related earlier, my visit to the one in Canberra at the War Memorial Museum was marred when some stupid s**t whooped in it just to hear the echo. I mean, c'mon. It's meant to be a solemn place.

It was a good visit to the War Memorial. I liked it better than I thought I would.

You're right, KBABZ. WWI is the watershed event, though doubtless they had Boer War veterans on earlier ANZAC days. WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf War....

Lest we forget....

In WWI, they thought war was a great f***ing adventure. Mustard gas, mud, machine-guns and mad generals cured that PDQ.....

Solemnly enough, I'm listening to the music from the Grey Havens in LOTR. I always tear up when I see this after watching the rest of the movie.

The news is on in the background.

They just showed the last Australian veteran from WWI - aged 108!

Good on him. Here's hoping he'll last a bit yet!

We went to the Palmwoods Bowling Club at the invitation of our Turkish friend. There were his Turkish friends (some Kurdish) and a young soldier that Huda had just met. It was a very interesting night talking about Gallipolli (how funny that I'm not sure of the spelling of that) Kurdish history. and the new Aust army. I think it was one of the best Anzac days I've had because I'm not into war and slaughter!

Nanna gave me more ANZAC biscuits before!

That was nice.