The 100th Anniversary of the ANZACs, The ANZAC Day thread.

[The Eastern Antarctic State]

On Saturday, it shall be 25th of April, 2015. 100 years on since the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC for short) landed in the Gallipoli peninsula, in the Ottoman Empire. Whilst the campaign was bungled by the incompetence of British Commanding officers and the troops made to withdraw, it created something more, an integral part of the national identities of Australia and New Zealand. Of mateship, courage and loyalty. The Birth of the ANZAC spirit that persists to this day in both nations. The Turks' sacrifice to defend their homeland is also worth mentioning. In this thread, discuss the various things about ANZAC day, whether it's spirit has been corrupted by commercialism, whether it has almost lost all value in society today, to find out more about the Gallipoli campaign, as long as it is about ANZAC day.
We shall not forget their sacrifices throughout years and in the many wars we did not start. They shall not grow old as we shall grown old.

Lest We Forget.

[Costa Fierro]

I'm finally going to attend my first Dawn Service this Saturday. Better late than never.

[Lost Phantoms]

100 years is a long time, but memories last forever.

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
between the crosses,
row on row that mark our place;
and in the sky the larks,
still bravely singing,
fly scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead.Short days ago we lived,
felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved,
And now we lie in Flanders fields.


Take up our quarrel with the foe;
To you from failing hands we throw the torch;
Be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die we shall not sleep,
Though poppies grow in Flanders fields.

John McCrae



Lest we forget

[The Eastern Antarctic State]

I'm finally going to attend my first Dawn Service this Saturday. Better late than never.

Indeed! I shall be attending one as well.

[Union of Kiwi Socialists]

Lest we forget!

[Melancholy fields]

Lest we forget!

[Tattland]

NOT MINE, BANJO PATERSON'S
Australia takes her pen in hand,
To write a line to you,
To let you fellows understand,
How proud we are of you.

From shearing shed and cattle run,
From Broome to Hobsons Bay,
Each native-born Australian son,
Stands straighter up today.

The man who used to "hump his drum",
On far-out Queensland runs,
Is fighting side by side with some
Tasmanian farmer's sons.

The fisher-boys dropped sail and oar
To grimly stand the test,
Along that storm-swept Turkish shore,
With miners from the west.

The old state jealousies of yore
Are dead as Pharaoh's sow,
We're not State children any more
We're all Australians now!

Our six-starred flag that used to fly,
Half-shyly to the breeze,
Unknown where older nations ply
Their trade on foreign seas,

Flies out to meet the morning blue
With Vict'ry at the prow;
For that's the flag the Sydney flew,
The wide seas know it now!

The mettle that a race can show
Is proved with shot and steel,
And now we know what nations know
And feel what nations feel.

The honoured graves beneath the crest
Of Gaba Tepe hill,
May hold our bravest and our best,
But we have brave men still.

With all our petty quarrels done,
Dissensions overthrown,
We have, through what you boys have done,
A history of our own.

Our old world diff'rences are dead,
Like weeds beneath the plough,
For English, Scotch, and Irish-bred,
They're all Australians now!

So now we'll toast the Third Brigade,
That led Australia's van,
For never shall their glory fade
In minds Australian.

Fight on, fight on, unflinchingly,
Till right and justice reign.
Fight on, fight on, till Victory
Shall send you home again.

And with Australia's flag shall fly
A spray of wattle bough,
To symbolise our unity,
We're all Australians now.

[Tattland]

Also I will be marching in the Anzac Day service in Brisbane. Here is our lineup of songs
1. Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
2. Transcontinental
3. Waltzing Matilda

[The Eastern Antarctic State]

Also I will be marching in the Anzac Day service in Brisbane. Here is our lineup of songs
1. Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
2. Transcontinental
3. Waltzing Matilda

Sounds nice!

[Christian Constantinople]

They went with songs to the battle, they were young.
Straight of limb, true of eye, 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 day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.

The Ode of Remembrance.

Lest we forget.

[Cabana]

"Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours. You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well."-Atatürk

[Christian Constantinople]

"Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours. You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well."-Atatürk

He was a great man.

[The Conez Imperium]

I'm finally going to attend my first Dawn Service this Saturday. Better late than never.

Indeed! I shall be attending one as well.

They're moving.

[Andermor]

So ww2 started in serbia (I'm a serb)


Yay new Zealand!

[Romalae]

Aren't there certain kinds of speech laws in Australia about the term ANZAC? I read a story in the BBC a week ago wherein some commercial advertisement was using a reference to ANZAC and received a large public backlash (even legal backlash if I remember correctly).

[Ikania]

Lest we forget. Lest we forget what? The bravery, courage and heroics of all the soldiers that served in our wars. While I have my own opinion of WWI as the dumbest war that ever happened (for the stupidest reasons, and because of a stupid number of stupid coincidences that could have been prevented), when it happened, people were there to serve their country and die for it. It's a shame that so many people (Australians included) had to die in this war, but it's important that we never forget the brutality that they endured, and that we never let it happen again.

Of course, we're not doing very well in those regards.

[Cyrisnia]

These guys fought bravely. Kudos to them and their families.

[The Eastern Antarctic State]

Aren't there certain kinds of speech laws in Australia about the term ANZAC? I read a story in the BBC a week ago wherein some commercial advertisement was using a reference to ANZAC and received a large public backlash (even legal backlash if I remember correctly).

Yeah Woolworths tried to use ANZAC to sell stuff, but the gorge meant cracked down on them.

[The Eastern Antarctic State]

Lest we forget. Lest we forget what? The bravery, courage and heroics of all the soldiers that served in our wars. While I have my own opinion of WWI as the dumbest war that ever happened (for the stupidest reasons, and because of a stupid number of stupid coincidences that could have been prevented), when it happened, people were there to serve their country and die for it. It's a shame that so many people (Australians included) had to die in this war, but it's important that we never forget the brutality that they endured, and that we never let it happen again.

Of course, we're not doing very well in those regards.

Don't forget the New Zealanders.

[Kelinfort]

Biggest fuck up in WWI military history. Rest in Peace.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Happy Anzac Day to all you folk in Australia and New Zealand.

Biggest fuck up in WWI military history. Rest in Peace.

Yeah it was a clusterfuck of the highest proportions.

[Cabana]

Biggest fuck up in WWI military history. Rest in Peace.

I think it's even with the Nivelle Offensive for that title though.

[Christian Constantinople]

Aren't there certain kinds of speech laws in Australia about the term ANZAC? I read a story in the BBC a week ago wherein some commercial advertisement was using a reference to ANZAC and received a large public backlash (even legal backlash if I remember correctly).

You can't use the term ANZAC for commercial gain unless the profits go to a veteran organisation.

[Costa Fierro]

Aren't there certain kinds of speech laws in Australia about the term ANZAC? I read a story in the BBC a week ago wherein some commercial advertisement was using a reference to ANZAC and received a large public backlash (even legal backlash if I remember correctly).

There's no laws against it, it's what the general public considers "bad taste".

[Dazchan]

Aren't there certain kinds of speech laws in Australia about the term ANZAC? I read a story in the BBC a week ago wherein some commercial advertisement was using a reference to ANZAC and received a large public backlash (even legal backlash if I remember correctly).

There's no laws against it, it's what the general public considers "bad taste".

Incorrect. There are indeed laws in Australia about the commercial use of "ANZAC".