Anzac Day. Remembering.

[Anonymous]

I will be remembering all those brave Australians who gave their lives so we could live

in a free country.  Especially my Dad, Jack, who served in the Air Force from 1940 to 1945.

And all those who fight for others freedoms, today.

Lest We Forget

[kengillard]

yes he did come home....but died a few years ago from Agent Orange cancer:-(

[2106greencat]

Oh No, that is so sad, I am so sorry.

The image you posted really brings it all home though - the reality, that young man in that photo fought for our country, too often the names are faceless.

No more words to say sorry

[freakiness]

My daughter was just telling me about her father in law.

He has been president of the local RSL for years. The club was going under and he had to close it. The community fought back, fundraised and reopened. They started the blame game targeting him (one of the few veterans) and so he tendered his resignation, effective after ANZAC Day.

Today he went to the dawn service and then to another town as he was told he could not perform his duty at the RSL Club today.

I am so angry over this. What a bunch of bullying cretins to treat one of their own like this.  What sort of ANZAC spirit do they think they have when they exclude a person who has voluntarily worked for the RSL Club for 20 years and who is actually a veteran of war?

Shame on them.

[kengillard]

I  agree freaki.....what a low act

[kengillard]

He was in the video clip utube of "He was only 19"   some lovely person on here found that pic for me a few years ago...thank you.   can't remember who it was tho?

[j*oono]

That is a terrible shame Freaki.  It's awful.

[*sparklz*]

I went to Turkey in 2008 and was invited to visit the site while there but I just could not bring myself to go.

Just thinking about what happened there was bringing tears to my eyes and I knew how it would effect me to go there.

Now I am regretting it. I wish I had gone there.

Lest we forget.

[freakiness]

I  agree freaki.....what a low act

Yes, I think it's despicable.

Very cruel and nasty. And these small communities brag about their community mindedness.

[zanadoo_56]

I love to watch the telecast of the Dawn Service at Villiers-Bretonneux - what a beautiful structure the Australian Memorial is.

My late father served in the RAAF in WWII - he was a wireless operator and flew in Liberators.  The noise he had to put up with in those old planes was responsible for his increasing deafness.  I've spoken to other people whose fathers did the same job and the results were the same - hearing loss due to such adverse working conditions.  At least Dad did come home, as did his brother who was a POW at Changi.

I don't think there is anything quite like the Catafalque Party ceremony and the playing of the Last Post on ANZAC Day to envoke a feeling of sadness...in memorium of those who didn't return.

[freakiness]

Nicely spoken