Lest we forget

[Violet_Crumble]

Thinking of my great granddad and my grandfather today, who both were veterans of respectively The Great War and WWII

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzac_Day

I'm in Canberra, but I never wake up early enough to go to the Dawn Service at the War Memorial. I just experienced the very low flyover, being only a few kilometres from where all the official stuff is happening this morning. Scared the shit out of my tiny dogs...

[SheltieLover]

1. ...

[hlthe2b]

2. Nice...

I hope the youngsters learn from these continued remembrances...

[erronis]

4. It seems that we are doomed to repeat past mistakes.

Especially if we let greedy bastards stay in control.

[Aussie105]

3. Wars remembered versus wars people are living through today - big contrast!

For those who don't know:

Anzac day here in Australia.

We celebrate with dawn services, speeches and marching bands.
And tourists crowding the memorial site at Gallipoli cove. And more speeches.

Specifically, the day is a remembrance of an attack on Turkish held coastal Gallipoli beach by ANZAC forces. Australian and New Zealand forces.

It was way back on this day in 1915, so WW1, and by all accounts it didn't go well.

But since then the legend has grown, brave troops versus overpowering resistance, etc.

My cynical mind contrasts this with the horror of current wars, and finds no reason to celebrate.
More a reason to mourn those who hoped they wouldn't die but did anyway.
And I see little mourning in the yearly Anzac day activities.

[canetoad]

5. I was sitting in the sun

Pulling weeds when I heard a fighter jet go over. Under attack by tsf was the first thought, then I remembered it was ANZAC day and planes from up the coast at Bairnsdale do flyovers of Gippsland towns on their way to Melbourne.

[donkeyoaty]

6. Anzac day

That song, khe sahn. & god help me i was only 19, always bring on the tears. My dad was WW11 & during the 70s i worked at a repatriation ( veterans ) hospital. Most of the patients were either my dads age or my gen. I dont get up early very much. ( hardly ever ) but i dont forget them