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Lest we Forget

poddster — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 13:19:08 GMT

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acacia_pycnantha — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 14:15:30 GMT

Not so easy to forget our annual indulgence in sentimentality, is it? And still we don't seem to learn our lesson, but continue to send our troops to fight and to die in foreign wars which only concern us because we have military alliance obliglations to countries like the USA and the UK.

These same sorts of military alliance obligations were the match to the fuse, so to speak which started most of the wars in which Australia has been involved.

Learn the lessons of History and study war no more!

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acacia_pycnantha — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 14:22:11 GMT

Match to the fuse which started WW1, was what I meant to say above. But it's the military alliance obligations which dragged us into Afghanistan, Iraq, and Vietnam, too.

When will we ever learn?

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acacia_pycnantha — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 18:03:24 GMT

I'd much rather we forgot.

I'd much rather we all forgot how to load guns and how to pull triggers.

But don't forget those who stay safe at home, making money from the wars they send your sons and daughters and husbands to fight and to die in.

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jean2579 — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:48:56 GMT

Acacia, I appreciate your point of view, but perhaps today is not the day to state it.

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sandypas — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 21:04:14 GMT

I would like to pay my respects to the men and women who have served their country.

I am not glorifying war - I am remembering people like my father who had no real say in serving overseas during WW2.

Lest We Forget

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poddster — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 21:37:15 GMT

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lionrose.7 — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 22:04:40 GMT

Papamoa Dawn Service

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tall_bearded — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 22:09:12 GMT

Maybe you would like to drop by so we can discuss this face to face.

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flashie* — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 23:16:32 GMT

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purple_haize — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 23:39:01 GMT

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nicnacs_4u — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 23:43:51 GMT

Lest We Forget....

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jean2579 — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 23:44:10 GMT

I have noticed that some marchers are wearing their medals on the right side and others on the left.

Is there any significance to this?

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punch*drunk — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 23:46:13 GMT

Veterans wear them on the left, descendants on the right.

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katymatey* — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 00:28:56 GMT

Three years in France. Thanks Pop.

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danger.will.robinson — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 00:32:05 GMT

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chuk_77 — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 01:10:40 GMT

that is one image that gives me goosebumps when ever I see it.

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lind9650 — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 01:12:34 GMT

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poddster — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 01:33:47 GMT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG48Ftsr3OI

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the_great_she_elephant — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 02:28:31 GMT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqba0IUdiBk

And I can't help but wonder now Willie MacBride
do all those who lie here know why they died?
Did you really believe them when they told you the cause?
Did you really believe them that this war would end wars?

Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame -
the killing and dying - it was all done in vain.
Oh Willie MacBride, it's all happened again
and again, and again, and again, and again.